[issue9643] urllib2 - Basic, Digest Proxy Auth Handlers failure will give 401 code instead of 407

Karthikeyan Singaravelan added the comment: This is still an issue and the relevant RFC part and a unittest would be as below. I would propose adding a new keyword argument with 401 as default value to ensure backwards compatibility with older versions. I can propose a PR if agreed and also

[issue9643] urllib2 - Basic, Digest Proxy Auth Handlers failure will give 401 code instead of 407

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[issue9643] urllib2 - Basic, Digest Proxy Auth Handlers failure will give 401 code instead of 407

Mark Lawrence added the comment: Slipped under the radar? -- components: +Library (Lib) nosy: +BreamoreBoy type: - behavior versions: +Python 3.4, Python 3.5 -Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9643

[issue9643] urllib2 - Basic, Digest Proxy Auth Handlers failure will give 401 code instead of 407

Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: In 3.x, http_error_auth_reqed is a method of urllib.request.AbstractBasicAuthHandler (20.5.8. AbstractBasicAuthHandler Objects in 3.1 lib manual) -- nosy: +terry.reedy stage: - unit test needed ___

[issue9643] urllib2 - Basic, Digest Proxy Auth Handlers failure will give 401 code instead of 407

Changes by Senthil Kumaran orsent...@gmail.com: -- title: urllib2 - Basic,Digest Auth Handlers Retry will give 401 code instead of 407 - urllib2 - Basic,Digest Proxy Auth Handlers failure will give 401 code instead of 407 ___ Python tracker