[issue8797] urllib2 basicauth broken in 2.6.5: RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in cmp

[zenyatta]

zenyatta <jh at journey.sk> added the comment:

I work in sidux and my Mercurial currently doesn't work. The python version already contains the fix for this issue (revision 81637) and it crashes Mercurial ("authorization failed") whenever a command involves more than 5 requests to the repository. I fixed it by resetting the retry counter upon successful authorization (see patch). Maybe this helps someone in a similar situation. The patch was made against trunk using "diff -u".

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keywords: +patch
nosy: +zenyatta
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18121/urllib2-8797-fix-workaround.patch

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