From: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 01:40:57 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Patch #944110: Properly process empty passwords. Fixes #944082.
X-Git-Tag: v2.3.4c1~39
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d60df17b96837d8efa90566b1aa1130021a91e48;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Patch #944110: Properly process empty passwords. Fixes #944082.
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diff --git a/Lib/urllib2.py b/Lib/urllib2.py
index 8c164d63a53c..9c3bcd54deae 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib2.py
@@ -639,7 +639,7 @@ class AbstractBasicAuthHandler:
 
     def retry_http_basic_auth(self, host, req, realm):
         user,pw = self.passwd.find_user_password(realm, host)
-        if pw:
+        if pw is not None:
             raw = "%s:%s" % (user, pw)
             auth = 'Basic %s' % base64.encodestring(raw).strip()
             if req.headers.get(self.auth_header, None) == auth:
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index b003799aedb5..00cca3cb3cff 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ Core and builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Bug #944082: Empty passwords in urllib2 are now supported.
+
 - Bug #926075: Fixed a bug that returns a wrong pattern object
   for a string or unicode object in sre.compile() when a different
   type pattern with the same value exists.