New submission from jurjen Bos j.bos-inter...@xs4all.nl:
If you use an authentication manager from urllib2, it will submit user code and
password if authentication fails.
However, if the password is wrong, the authentication manager will happily try
again, again with the same password.
A
Senthil Kumaran orsent...@gmail.com added the comment:
There was a fix made in issue8797, which adopts a retry approach before failing
for wrong password. This is present for Basic Auth and Digest Auth, so the
problem wont be faced. Jurjen, do you have any comments before I mark this as
jurjen Bos j.bos-inter...@xs4all.nl added the comment:
Yep you're right. In that thread they are talking about the exact same problem
as I was having. Obviously, I didn't find that one when I was looking for the
problem in the database before I posted this.
I do have my doubts about the 5
Senthil Kumaran orsent...@gmail.com added the comment:
Okay, so there is another negative vote 5 retries in the basic auth.
But yeah, this bug can be marked duplicate.
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Senthil Kumaran orsent...@gmail.com added the comment:
Duplicate of issue8797
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resolution: - duplicate
status: open - closed
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