SF #614596, fix for urllib2.AbstractBasicAuthHandler, John Williams (johnw42)

nnorwitz · nnorwitz · commit 853ddd5cb969 · 2002-10-09T23:17:04.000Z
Make the regex case insensitive for some web sites which use Realm.
diff --git a/Lib/urllib2.py b/Lib/urllib2.py
@@ -572,7 +572,7 @@ def find_user_password(self, realm, authuri):
 
 class AbstractBasicAuthHandler:
 
-    rx = re.compile('[ \t]*([^ \t]+)[ \t]+realm="([^"]*)"')
+    rx = re.compile('[ \t]*([^ \t]+)[ \t]+realm="([^"]*)"', re.I)
 
     # XXX there can actually be multiple auth-schemes in a
     # www-authenticate header.  should probably be a lot more careful
