[issue7159] Urllib2 authentication memory.

2009-10-17 Thread Brad Olson
New submission from Brad Olson : For each request requiring HTTP authentication, urllib2 submits the request without authentication, receives the server's 401 error/challenge, then re-submits the request with authentication. This is compliant behavior. The problem comes in that urllib2 re

[issue7159] Urllib2 authentication memory.

2016-05-24 Thread Brad Olson
Brad Olson added the comment: Yes, Go ahead. Thanks. On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 1:56 AM, Terry J. Reedy wrote: > > Terry J. Reedy added the comment: > > Should this be closed? A substantial patch was pushed year ago and I see > no indication of further issue. > > --