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[3.15] gh-53852 Proxy Auth failure to raise 407 instead of 401 (GH-160917) - #160919
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…GH-160917) Proxy Auth failure to raise 407 instead of 401 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Status/407 is the correct status code to raise for the Proxy Authentication. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Status/401 is the generic code that can be raised for unauthorized response. (cherry picked from commit 2e1666f) Co-authored-by: Senthil Kumaran <senthil@python.org>
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Proxy Auth failure to raise 407 instead of 401
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Status/407
is the correct status code to raise for the Proxy Authentication.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Status/401
is the generic code that can be raised for unauthorized response.
(cherry picked from commit 2e1666f)
Co-authored-by: Senthil Kumaran senthil@python.org