[New-bugs-announce] [issue4140] urllib2: request with digest auth through proxy fail

[Jan-Klaas Kollhof]

New submission from Jan-Klaas Kollhof <jan at kollhof.net>:

When using a proxy to request URLs that require Digest Auth,
a header similar to the following is sent to the server:

Authorization: Digest ... uri="http://example.org/foobar/spam" ...

The server then responded with:

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0


When not using a proxy, the header sent will look like:

Authorization: Digest ... uri="/foobar/spam" ...

and the server responded as expected with a 200 OK.

I don't know what is at fault here, urllib2 or IIS,
but patching the urllib2 to not use the full URL, when creating 
the Digest Auth. header, works.

When a proxy is being used by urllib2, the Request's get_selector() will
always return the full URL instead of just the selector.
The code that creates the Digest auth. header also uses the
get_selector() to set the "uri="-part in the auth header.
Making sure that the "uri="-part is not a full URL all seems to work.
See the patched urllib2.py attached.

I have only tested the fix against the server I had problems with,
and it seems to be working.

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components: Library (Lib)
files: urllib2.py
messages: 74918
nosy: jan.kollhof
severity: normal
status: open
title: urllib2: request with digest auth through proxy fail
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.5
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file11819/urllib2.py

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