mirrors/cpython
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/python/cpython.git synced 2025-08-03 00:23:06 +00:00
Code Issues Projects Releases Packages Wiki Activity Actions 6

Close #19494: add urrlib.request.HTTPBasicPriorAuthHandler

Browse source 
This auth handler adds the Authorization header to the first
HTTP request rather than waiting for a HTTP 401 Unauthorized
response from the server as the default HTTPBasicAuthHandler
does.

This allows working with websites like https://api.github.com which do
not follow the strict interpretation of RFC, but more the dicta in the
end of section 2 of RFC 2617:

    > A client MAY preemptively send the corresponding Authorization
    > header with requests for resources in that space without receipt
    > of another challenge from the server.  Similarly, when a client
    > sends a request to a proxy, it may reuse a userid and password in
    > the Proxy-Authorization header field without receiving another
    > challenge from the proxy server. See section 4 for security
    > considerations associated with Basic authentication.

Patch by Matej Cepl.
This commit is contained in:
Nick Coghlan 2014-11-12 23:33:50 +10:00
parent ab14088141
commit c216c48699
5 changed files with 53 additions and 0 deletions
Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

11
Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
View file

@ -304,6 +304,17 @@ The following classes are provided:
presented with a wrong Authentication scheme.
.. class:: HTTPBasicPriorAuthHandler(password_mgr=None)
A variant of :class:`HTTPBasicAuthHandler` which automatically sends
authorization credentials with the first request, rather than waiting to
first receive a HTTP 401 "Unauthorised" error response. This allows
authentication to sites that don't provide a 401 response when receiving
a request without an Authorization header. Aside from this difference,
this behaves exactly as :class:`HTTPBasicAuthHandler`.
.. versionadded:: 3.5
.. class:: ProxyBasicAuthHandler(password_mgr=None)
Handle authentication with the proxy. *password_mgr*, if given, should be