[Patches] [ python-Patches-994595 ] HTTP basic authentication problem

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Patches item #994595, was opened at 2004-07-20 16:46
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Category: Library (Lib)
Group: Python 2.3
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Catalin Marinas (c_marinas)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: HTTP basic authentication problem

Initial Comment:
The regular expression matching in the
AbstractBasicAuthHandler.http_error_auth_reqed()
function in the urllib2 module doesn't work if the
authorization string returned by the server contains
one or more words in front of 'Basic realm="..."'. The
patch changes the rx.match() to rx.search().

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>Comment By: Catalin Marinas (c_marinas)
Date: 2004-07-27 09:37

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I was trying to access a MS Exchange web mail account
through their Outlook Web Access (WebDAV) interface but
could not authenticate. The authorisation header returned by
the the server is: 'Negotiate, NTLM, Basic realm="..."'.

I don't know wheather the MS server complies with any
standard, but the patch solved my problem.

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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2004-07-26 13:19

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Can you please give an example of a header that is not
correctly detected?

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