[Bug #776542] open_https() generates a bad Authorization header because it calls .putheader() wrongly. Reported by Steffen Ries.

akuchling · akuchling · commit ff638ea6dbc7 · 2003-08-29T18:12:23.000Z
diff --git a/Lib/urllib.py b/Lib/urllib.py
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ def open_https(self, url, data=None):
                 h.putheader('Content-length', '%d' % len(data))
             else:
                 h.putrequest('GET', selector)
-            if auth: h.putheader('Authorization: Basic %s' % auth)
+            if auth: h.putheader('Authorization', 'Basic %s' % auth)
             if realhost: h.putheader('Host', realhost)
             for args in self.addheaders: h.putheader(*args)
             h.endheaders()
