fix for a bug reported by nightman (same as http://bugs.python.org/issue8797)

lib/request/basicauthhandler.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+"""
+$Id$
+
+Copyright (c) 2006-2010 sqlmap developers (http://sqlmap.sourceforge.net/)
+See the file 'doc/COPYING' for copying permission
+"""
+
+import urllib2
+
+class SmartHTTPBasicAuthHandler(urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler):
+    """
+    Reference: http://selenic.com/hg/rev/6c51a5056020
+    Fix for a: http://bugs.python.org/issue8797
+    """
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
+        self.retried_req = None
+
+    def reset_retry_count(self):
+        # Python 2.6.5 will call this on 401 or 407 errors and thus loop
+        # forever. We disable reset_retry_count completely and reset in
+        # http_error_auth_reqed instead.
+        pass
+
+    def http_error_auth_reqed(self, auth_header, host, req, headers):
+        # Reset the retry counter once for each request.
+        if req is not self.retried_req:
+            self.retried_req = req
+            self.retried = 0
+        return urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler.http_error_auth_reqed(
+                        self, auth_header, host, req, headers)