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diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst index f42025961f..dca56d6e04 100644 --- a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst +++ b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst @@ -304,6 +304,17 @@ 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 |