Patch #994595: Recognize Basic auth even if other schemes are offered.

Will backport to 2.3.
2004-08-03 12:59:55 +00:00 · 2004-08-03 12:59:55 +00:00 · 65a7975f16
parent 7db57b3b41
commit 65a7975f16
2 changed files with 4 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/Lib/urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib2.py
@ -714,7 +714,7 @@ class AbstractBasicAuthHandler:
        # XXX could be multiple headers
        authreq = headers.get(authreq, None)
        if authreq:
-            mo = AbstractBasicAuthHandler.rx.match(authreq)
+            mo = AbstractBasicAuthHandler.rx.search(authreq)
            if mo:
                scheme, realm = mo.groups()
                if scheme.lower() == 'basic':
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ Extension modules
 Library
 -------

+- urllib2 now recognizes Basic authentication even if other authentication
+  schemes are offered.
+
 - Bug #1001053.  wave.open() now accepts unicode filenames.

 - gzip.GzipFile has a new fileno() method, to retrieve the handle of the