seth vidal wrote: > On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 20:15, Joe Cooper wrote: > >>Hi Seth and all, >> >>I'm not sure if this is a bug of the Python urllib, or a new 'feature' >>of yum 1.97, but authentication information in the URL is no longer >>accepted by yum. ... > gist: > urllib2 broke out the http auth information into some more named args. > urllib is what was used in 1.0 - and it didn't do that > > ftp url's with user/pass will still work in 1.97 > > won't work under urllib2 > > I have plans to hack urlgrabber to add auth support that is consistent > for http and ftp. > > so each repo would then have > > user=username > password=password > > in the repository stanza. > > but I haven't had time b/c I've been busy with everything else :) > > Joe, > please file an rfe/bugreport in bugzilla for this one so I'll remember. Hi Seth, Thanks for your quick reply. I'm going to tackle it myself, since I have to have it in order to roll out Red Hat 9 to clients. I think I have most of it covered. I've added two arguments to retrygrab/urlgrab for user and password. I've created the HTTPBasicAuthHandler(), and made an optional opener.add_handler along the lines of the Keepalive stuff that is already in there. Anyway, I think I have all of the back-end bits. But now I'm looking at the way arguments are passed around (and more importantly, how infrequently the serveridlist is being passed around), and I don't see how to get the user and password into the places where I need it (i.e. everywhere a retrygrab and urlgrab happen). It looks like I'm going to have to re-write large chunks of code to haul extra stuff around, when it seems like it ought to be very simple. Am I looking at this the wrong way? Is there something magic I can do to make the user and password just get to where they're going without passing them around so much? Do I even have to have login and pass as arguments to urlgrab? As I mentioned, me and python are new acquaintences and I'm a clumsy coder even in languages that are more familiar, so I'm learning as I go and this one is a bit of a stumper. Thanks for any tips anyone can provide. -- Joe Cooper <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Web caching appliances and support. http://www.swelltech.com
