commit 8b3e871a19f414257b8f4a361d9c2c063a5f8015
author Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> Thu May 06 01:41:26 2004 +0000
committer Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> Thu May 06 01:41:26 2004 +0000
tree da9ecd22cbd881486ca4af666b7dc029cdd8a225
parent f1f056083247ce28973e8f1e589b89f57fa410b6

Patch #944110: Properly process empty passwords. Fixes #944082.
Backported to 2.3.

Lib/urllib2.py

diff --git a/Lib/urllib2.py b/Lib/urllib2.py
index 39dadbd..1984cf2 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib2.py
@@ -696,7 +696,7 @@
 
     def retry_http_basic_auth(self, host, req, realm):
         user,pw = self.passwd.find_user_password(realm, host)
-        if pw:
+        if pw is not None:
             raw = "%s:%s" % (user, pw)
             auth = 'Basic %s' % base64.encodestring(raw).strip()
             if req.headers.get(self.auth_header, None) == auth: