Re: [Httplib2-discuss] Digest authentication buglet?

[Joe G. <jo...@bi...>]

Manuzhai,
   I just checked a fix for this into subversion.

   Thanks,
   -joe

On 1/18/07, Manuzhai <man...@gm...> wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I've been using httplib2 for some things, and it's really nice. I used
> to use mechanize and it's derivative mechanoid, and httplib2 feels
> much better to me. One thing I would like is a cookie store in the
> Http-objects though: so I can really conduct a browser-like session.
>
> The reason I'm writing this email, though, is that I was wondering
> about something I walked up against today while trying to authenticate
> against the NewsGator REST API. It supports Digest authentication, but
> when GETting a response with the DigestAuthentication thing on it, it
> returns neither a Authentication-Info nor a WWW-Authenticate header. I
> quickly skimmed the RFC, and it seems this behavior is allowed.
> However, the DigestAuthentication.response() method, when no
> Authentication-Info header is present, tries to parse the
> WWW-Authenticate header, which is not actually there (since we've
> already authenticated). Therefore, an Exception occurs in
> DigestAuthentication.response()...
>
> >>> h, rsp = http.request(URL, headers = head)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/httplib2/__init__.py", line 764, in request
>   File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/httplib2/__init__.py", line 616, in _request
>   File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/httplib2/__init__.py", line 359, in response
> KeyError: 'digest'
>
> I hope this can be fixed. If httplib2's behavior is right, I'll gladly
> complain to the NewsGator team, but for now it seems this is a problem
> with httplib2.
>
> Regards,
>
> Manuzhai
>
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