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Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 03:03:10 +1000
Subject: Re: httplib with NETRC authentication
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:44 AM, Akira Li <4kir4.1i@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The obvious question is: What *does* work? Does it work when you use
>> wget, or some other application? Then go and look at what that sends
>> for its authentication headers. Tip: It won't be "Authorization".
>
> "Authorization" is the appropriate header for basic http authentication:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2617#section-2

*facepalm* Critical reading failure on my part. He did have it right
in the first place. Still, I stand by the original statement and (more
importantly) the original question. It's just the tip that's wrong.

ChrisA