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diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst index d878aac557..82fc1b2812 100644 --- a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst +++ b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ The :mod:`urllib.request` module defines the following functions: :class:`http.client.HTTPResponse` object which has the following :ref:`httpresponse-objects` methods. - For ftp, file, and data urls and requests explicity handled by legacy + For ftp, file, and data urls and requests explicitly handled by legacy :class:`URLopener` and :class:`FancyURLopener` classes, this function returns a :class:`urllib.response.addinfourl` object which can work as :term:`context manager` and has methods such as @@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ The :mod:`urllib.request` module defines the following functions: .. versionchanged:: 3.4.3 *context* was added. + .. function:: install_opener(opener) Install an :class:`OpenerDirector` instance as the default global opener. @@ -300,6 +301,17 @@ The following classes are provided: presented with a wrong Authentication scheme. +.. class:: HTTPBasicPriorAuthHandler(password_mgr=None) + + A variant of :class:`HTTPBasicAuthHandler` which automatically sends + authorization credentials with the first request, rather than waiting to + first receive a HTTP 401 "Unauthorised" error response. This allows + authentication to sites that don't provide a 401 response when receiving + a request without an Authorization header. Aside from this difference, + this behaves exactly as :class:`HTTPBasicAuthHandler`. + + .. versionadded:: 3.5 + .. class:: ProxyBasicAuthHandler(password_mgr=None) Handle authentication with the proxy. *password_mgr*, if given, should be @@ -1067,7 +1079,7 @@ The following W3C document, http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset\ , lists the various ways in which a (X)HTML or a XML document could have specified its encoding information. -As the python.org website uses *utf-8* encoding as specified in it's meta tag, we +As the python.org website uses *utf-8* encoding as specified in its meta tag, we will use the same for decoding the bytes object. :: >>> with urllib.request.urlopen('http://www.python.org/') as f: |