[twill] Bug? in HTTP Basic Authentication Handling

[Titus Brown]

>   Hi John,
>
>   thanks for answering. I digged a lot deeper now into the code... and I
>   installed the latest mechanize code separately and tried it out. The
>   latest mechanize version works correct, I can access the site easily
>   with a simple script.
>
>   I did then something ugly ;-) - I copied the latest mechanize code
>   over the mechanize code provided by twill to see if the bug is purely
>   within mechanize. It still doesn't work with Twill, so I suggest that
>   somehow the 2.4er tweaking (I use 2.4) from the side of twill is the
>   cause.  

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>   What I found also interesting is that twill installs a own HTTPHandler
>   (for whatever reason, I don't know what WSGI is...). Maybe this is the
>   cause (_browser.py)?

Actually, I suspect that *this* code is the problem:

twill/_browser.py,

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
    	...

        # fix basic auth.
        self.handler_classes['_basicauth'] = FixedHTTPBasicAuthHandler

You did exactly the right thing in trying out the new mechanize code
with twill; that helps me nail down the problem.  I'll see what I can do
about it this weekend.

cheers,
--titus

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