[Bug #776542] open_https() generates a bad Authorization header because it calls .putheader() wrongly. Reported by Steffen Ries.
diff --git a/Lib/urllib.py b/Lib/urllib.py
index 494f578..5449104 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib.py
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@
h.putheader('Content-length', '%d' % len(data))
else:
h.putrequest('GET', selector)
- if auth: h.putheader('Authorization: Basic %s' % auth)
+ if auth: h.putheader('Authorization', 'Basic %s' % auth)
if realhost: h.putheader('Host', realhost)
for args in self.addheaders: h.putheader(*args)
h.endheaders()