11.4.7 AbstractBasicAuthHandler Objects

handle_authentication_request(authreq, host, req, headers): Handle an authentication request by getting user/password pair, and retrying. authreq should be the name of the header where the information about the realm, host is the host to authenticate too, req should be the (failed) Request object, and headers should be the error headers.

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