[issue6452] urllib2.Request() will not work with long authorization headers

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: There is a OLD Known issue that base64.encodestring will insert in a line-break in the authorization header. See Issue1574068 I fear, you might have done something like this. base64string = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' %(username,passwd))[:-1] request.add_head

[issue6452] urllib2.Request() will not work with long authorization headers

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[issue6452] urllib2.Request() will not work with long authorization headers

New submission from Jamal Fanaian : 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