urllib.request.urlopen dies on non-basic/digest auth schemes

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Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
networking

Research direction

Begin with urllib.request.urlopen and the linked BPO issue 21413. Reproduce the failure with a non-basic/digest authentication scheme, then locate the relevant Library (Lib) implementation and tests; done means the failure is resolved with regression coverage.

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stdlib
BPO 21413
Nosy @orsenthil

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assignee = None
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created_at = <Date 2014-05-01.23:03:33.848>
labels = ['library']
title = 'urllib.request.urlopen dies on non-basic/digest auth schemes'
updated_at = <Date 2014-05-02.18:09:58.010>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/samwyse'

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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue21413'
versions = ['Python 3.4', 'Python 3.5']

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