On Sep 10, 12:09 pm, naugiedoggie <michael.a.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a script that authenticates to a web service provider to > retrieve data. This script provides an authentication header built in > a very basic way like this:
The answer is that there is something whacked in the Windoze implementation for urllib2. It turns out that the script works fine when run in a linux console. '401' error is trapped as expected by an exception handler. In Winblows, the builtin handler for authentication is supposed to take a dump after 5 retries, but this seems to not happen. The retries continue until a recursion exception is fired. At this point the script dumps back to the console. An exception handler for Exception will catch this. Thanks. mp -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
