[MERGE][bug 94034] urllib http digest authentication (was Re: [MERGE] Better http basic auth handling)

[Alexander Belchenko]

Vincent Ladeuil пишет:
>>>>>> "john" == John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:
> 
> <snip/>

>     john> Just a step in that direction? (It would be nice to
>     john> reference things in NEWS, but if it doesn't actually
>     john> close them, I guess we don't mention them).
> 
> I heavily updated NEWS.

> === modified file 'NEWS'
> --- NEWS	2007-04-24 05:02:04 +0000
> +++ NEWS	2007-04-24 10:05:23 +0000
> @@ -71,6 +71,18 @@
>        serve out to the local LAN (and anyone in the world that can reach the
>        machine running ``bzr serve``. (Robert Collins, #98918)
>  
> +    * digest authentication is now supported for proxies and HTTP by the urllib
> +      based http implementation. Tested against Apache 2.0.55 and Squid
> +      2.6.5. Basic and digest authentication are handled coherently for HTTP
> +      and proxy: if the user is provided in the url (bzr command line for HTTP,
> +      proxy environment variables for proxies), the password is prompted for
> +      (only once). If the password is provided, it is taken into account. Once
> +      the first authentication is successful, all further authentication
> +      roundtrips are avoided by preventively setting the right authentication
> +      header(s).
> +      (Vincent Ladeuil).
> +
> +
>    INTERNALS:

^-- Please, use 1 blank line between sections for one release,
and 2 blank lines between releases news.

2All: Can we use this rule as default now?
With this rule it's much easier to parse our NEWS and conform to PEP-8 ;-)

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