From fcb7513fc9034f1d40fbed311d0d06b30e57555c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Andrew M. Kuchling" <amk@amk.ca>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:13:44 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add NEWS item

---
 Misc/NEWS | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 8cb8ec835e1..c1a505284c8 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -197,6 +197,9 @@ Library
 - Patch #1574068: fix urllib/urllib2 to not insert line breaks when
   HTTP authentication data was very long.
 
+- Patch #1617413: fix urllib's support for  HTTP Basic authentication via HTTPS
+  (patch by Dug Song).
+
 - Fix a bug in traceback.format_exception_only() that led to an error
   being raised when print_exc() was called without an exception set.
   In version 2.4, this printed "None", restored that behavior.