HTTPDigestAuthHandler Class Reference

Inheritance diagram for HTTPDigestAuthHandler:

Public Member Functions
def	http_error_401
Public Member Functions inherited from BaseHandler
def	add_parent
def	close
Public Member Functions inherited from AbstractDigestAuthHandler
def	__init__
def	http_error_auth_reqed
def	retry_http_digest_auth
def	get_authorization
def	get_algorithm_impls
def	get_entity_digest

Static Public Attributes
string	header = 'Authorization'

Additional Inherited Members
Data Fields inherited from BaseHandler
	parent
Data Fields inherited from AbstractDigestAuthHandler
	passwd
	add_password

Detailed Description

An authentication protocol defined by RFC 2069

Digest authentication improves on basic authentication because it
does not transmit passwords in the clear.

Definition at line 710 of file urllib2.py.

Member Function Documentation

def http_error_401	(		self,
			req,
			fp,
			code,
			msg,
			headers
	)

Definition at line 719 of file urllib2.py.

References AbstractDigestAuthHandler.http_error_auth_reqed(), and urlparse.urlparse().

    def http_error_401(self, req, fp, code, msg, headers):
        host = urlparse.urlparse(req.get_full_url())[1]
        self.http_error_auth_reqed('www-authenticate', host, req, headers)