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The link in "Related Articles" section of "HOWTO Fetch Internet Resources Using The urllib Package" page does not work. #92719
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In the HOWTO Fetch Internet Resources Using The urllib Package topic there is a section of "Related Articles" saying:
Related Articles
You may also find useful the following article on fetching web resources with Python:
A tutorial on Basic Authentication, with examples in Python.
The link goes to http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/authentication.shtml but does not work.
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hugovk commentedon May 12, 2022
Thanks for the report, that whole website is now down.
I couldn't find a replacement at a new website, we can instead replace it with a recent Internet Archive link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20201215133350/https://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/authentication.shtml
@OmerFI Would you like to create a pull request? You can edit the page directly at https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst
Ping also @voidspace.
OmerFI commentedon May 12, 2022
@hugovk Thanks for the quick reply.
The article uses python 2. So maybe it is better to remove this link?
Or, I can create a pull request and replace the broken link with the Internet Archive link.
hugovk commentedon May 12, 2022
Good point, yes, I think we should remove it instead.