From a010386a23b52ad8cde48da7a5cffa1a912dd0c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miroslav Stampar <miroslav.stampar@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 10:29:38 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] finally a proper fix for that annoying recursive bug

---
 lib/request/basicauthhandler.py | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/request/basicauthhandler.py b/lib/request/basicauthhandler.py
index eac1faceb..eb351968d 100644
--- a/lib/request/basicauthhandler.py
+++ b/lib/request/basicauthhandler.py
@@ -29,5 +29,12 @@ class SmartHTTPBasicAuthHandler(urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler):
         if hash(req) not in self.retried_req:
             self.retried_req.add(hash(req))
             self.retried = 0
+        else:
+            if self.retried > 5:
+                raise urllib2.HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), 401, "basic auth failed",
+                                headers, None)
+            else:
+                self.retried += 1
+
         return urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler.http_error_auth_reqed(
                         self, auth_header, host, req, headers)