Fix Issue8797 - urllib2 basic authentication fix for wrong passwords. It fails after 5 retries.
diff --git a/Lib/urllib2.py b/Lib/urllib2.py
index 43ca53d..40e4427 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib2.py
@@ -819,12 +819,21 @@
password_mgr = HTTPPasswordMgr()
self.passwd = password_mgr
self.add_password = self.passwd.add_password
+ self.retried = 0
def http_error_auth_reqed(self, authreq, host, req, headers):
# host may be an authority (without userinfo) or a URL with an
# authority
# XXX could be multiple headers
authreq = headers.get(authreq, None)
+
+ if self.retried > 5:
+ # retry sending the username:password 5 times before failing.
+ raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), 401, "basic auth failed",
+ headers, None)
+ else:
+ self.retried += 1
+
if authreq:
mo = AbstractBasicAuthHandler.rx.search(authreq)
if mo: