New submission from Jamal Fanaian <jfana...@gmail.com>: While testing this bug report in Gwibber https://bugs.launchpad.net/gwibber/+bug/397297 I found that using urllib2.Request() with a long authorization would cause it to error and not authenticate. I'm not sure if it is because the header wasn't being passed or any other issue.
The header would fail when the value part of the authorization string was 89 characters. I was able to resolve the issue by using urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler() and urllib2.install_opener() to install it, instead of passing the Authorization header directly to urllib2.Request(). Please let me know if I can provide more information to test the issue. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 90351 nosy: jamal severity: normal status: open title: urllib2.Request() will not work with long authorization headers type: behavior versions: Python 2.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6452> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
