[Python-checkins] r53070 - python/branches/release25-maint/Misc/NEWS

[andrew.kuchling]

Author: andrew.kuchling
Date: Tue Dec 19 16:13:44 2006
New Revision: 53070

Modified:
   python/branches/release25-maint/Misc/NEWS
Log:
Add NEWS item

Modified: python/branches/release25-maint/Misc/NEWS
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--- python/branches/release25-maint/Misc/NEWS	(original)
+++ python/branches/release25-maint/Misc/NEWS	Tue Dec 19 16:13:44 2006
@@ -197,6 +197,9 @@
 - 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.