In MyCache.py we can see the following which may no longer be true.
246 # https uris are not supported when they contain a username/password
247 # because the urllib2 https implementation will not check
certificates
248 # and so its possible to do a man-in-the-middle
Thanks, Launchpad broke my pasted diff.
** Patch added: update-manager_basic-auth.diff
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1343888/+attachment/4155396/+files/update-manager_basic-auth.diff
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** Description changed:
_get_changelog_or_news when fetching chengelogs from third-party URLS
that contain username:password does not handle that information
correctly.
urllib2 expects to get the authorization information in a an Opener
object isntead of in the URL. Passing it in the
