Here's a quick hack to support HTTP Basic authorization in apt-proxy
that works for me.
Disclaimer: I have no familiarity with Twisted and only glanced at RFC
2617 before implementing this, so I'm overly confident this patch is
correct...
--
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pretend to like each other.
--- apt-proxy-1.9.30.old/apt_proxy/apt_proxy.py 2005-05-19 09:41:18.000000000
-0700
+++ apt-proxy-1.9.30/apt_proxy/apt_proxy.py 2005-06-01 14:38:07.000000000
-0700
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
from twisted.python.failure import Failure
import memleak
from twisted.internet import error
+import base64
#from posixfile import SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR, SEEK_END
#since posixfile is considered obsolete I'll define the SEEK_* constants
#myself.
@@ -586,6 +587,11 @@
self.sendHeader('host', self.request.backendServer.host)
+ if self.request.backendServer.username:
+ self.sendHeader('authorization', "Basic "
+ +
base64.encodestring(self.request.backendServer.username + ":"
+ +
self.request.backendServer.password))
+
if self.local_mtime != None:
datetime = http.datetimeToString(self.local_mtime)
self.sendHeader('if-modified-since', datetime)
