#2136: allow single quotes in realm spec.
diff --git a/Lib/urllib2.py b/Lib/urllib2.py
index d5a539d..437a813 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib2.py
@@ -780,7 +780,10 @@
# XXX this allows for multiple auth-schemes, but will stupidly pick
# the last one with a realm specified.
- rx = re.compile('(?:.*,)*[ \t]*([^ \t]+)[ \t]+realm="([^"]*)"', re.I)
+ # allow for double- and single-quoted realm values
+ # (single quotes are a violation of the RFC, but appear in the wild)
+ rx = re.compile('(?:.*,)*[ \t]*([^ \t]+)[ \t]+'
+ 'realm=(["\'])(.*?)\\2', re.I)
# XXX could pre-emptively send auth info already accepted (RFC 2617,
# end of section 2, and section 1.2 immediately after "credentials"
@@ -800,7 +803,7 @@
if authreq:
mo = AbstractBasicAuthHandler.rx.search(authreq)
if mo:
- scheme, realm = mo.groups()
+ scheme, quote, realm = mo.groups()
if scheme.lower() == 'basic':
return self.retry_http_basic_auth(host, req, realm)