gh-128192: support sha-256 digest authentication #128193
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…e-128192.02mEhD.rst Co-authored-by: Peter Bierma <zintensitydev@gmail.com>
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It looks fine, but you should add a test.
from RFC-7616
This specification defines the following algorithms:
o SHA2-256 (mandatory to implement)
o SHA2-512/256 (as a backup algorithm)
o MD5 (for backward compatibility).
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i dont know, I assume i would just be re-writing a test that probably exists in hashlib?
i've only found a single test written for this function that checks for an invalid algorithm.
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hashlib does not need to be tested. What needs to be tested is that MD5, SHA and SHA-256 are recognized algorithms if you specify them as is in the request headers. This is an opportunity to add tests for this as well.
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hashlib does not need to be tested. What needs to be tested is that MD5, SHA and SHA-256 are recognized algorithms if you specify them as is in the request headers. This is an opportunity to add tests for this as well.
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| elif algorithm == 'SHA': | |||
| H = lambda x: hashlib.sha1(x.encode("ascii")).hexdigest() | |||
| # XXX MD5-sess | |||
| elif algorithm == 'SHA-256': | |||
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can you move the XXX MD5-sess before the else and not before the elif? thanks. In addition, mention that the algorithm names are taken from https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7616#section-6.1.
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| Support digest authentication algorithm SHA-256 in :mod:`urllib.request`. | |||
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| Support digest authentication algorithm SHA-256 in :mod:`urllib.request`. | |
| Upgrade HTTP digest authentication algorithm for :mod:`urllib.request` by | |
| supporting SHA-256 digest authentication as specified in :rfc:`7616`. |
This also requires a What's New entry. However, we do not have any documentation concerning HTTP digest access authentication (we only have https://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.request.html#abstractdigestauthhandler-objects but never do we mention which digests we are supporting). Nonetheless, maybe we can update the wording of that documented entry.
as mentioned in the issue, other authentication exist, but i don't see them supported out of the box in hashlib.
this all depends if python wishes to support rfc7616