On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:44 AM, Akira Li <4kir4...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The obvious question is: What *does* work? Does it work when you use >> wget, or some other application? Then go and look at what that sends >> for its authentication headers. Tip: It won't be "Authorization". > > "Authorization" is the appropriate header for basic http authentication: > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2617#section-2
*facepalm* Critical reading failure on my part. He did have it right in the first place. Still, I stand by the original statement and (more importantly) the original question. It's just the tip that's wrong. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
