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r84323 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-08-26 11:46:22 +0530 (Thu, 26 Aug 2010) | 3 lines
Fix Issue8797 - Reset the basic auth retry count when response code is not 401.
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Library
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+- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
+ falling into recursion.
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- Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.