[Yum] Basic auth fails in 1.97, works in previous versions
Joe Cooper
joe at swelltech.com
Fri May 16 10:49:50 UTC 2003
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 at swelltech.com>
Web caching appliances and support.
http://www.swelltech.com
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