I feel I better report this as a bug, since urllib2's digest authentication handler fails where others succeed. I have been trying to authenticate against an IIS server at Microsoft hosting MapPoint SOAP services. The host requres Digest authentication but urllib2 fails to authenticate with the credentials I have recieved. When I authenticate using firefox the browser I imediately succeed and gain access to a browsable service API. C# dotnet's SOAP client also succeeds in authenticating. Therefore I have made my own conclusion that urllib.HTTPDigestAuthHandler must be doing something wrong. I can provide the authentication credentials needed to test and correct the bug, but this would have to be through an email, so I don't break to many laws. In the attached file is the script I have used to provoke the digest challenge. Jakob Simon-Gaarde
I am inclined to reject this issue and close it as: 1) Digest Authentication does with urllib2 2) This is specific with some domain, which does not give enough details to reproduce it. 3) The report is way old (2005). If there are any new issues with Digest Authentication, lets handle it in a new issue with more details.
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