url: avoid re-issuing incorrect password (issue3210) Some draconian IT setups lock accounts after a small number of incorrect password attempts. Mercurial's implementation of the urllib2 authentication was causing 5 retry attempts with the same credentials, without prompting the user. The code was attempting to check whether the authorization token had changed, but unfortunately was reading the misleading 'headers' member of the request instead of using the 'get_header' accessor. Modelled on fix for Python issue 8797: https://bugs.python.org/issue8797 https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/30e8a8f22a2a

--- a/mercurial/url.py	Wed Jul 27 15:22:36 2016 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/url.py	Fri Jul 29 12:46:07 2016 +0100
@@ -451,7 +451,7 @@
         if pw is not None:
             raw = "%s:%s" % (user, pw)
             auth = 'Basic %s' % base64.b64encode(raw).strip()
-            if req.headers.get(self.auth_header, None) == auth:
+            if req.get_header(self.auth_header, None) == auth:
                 return None
             self.auth = auth
             req.add_unredirected_header(self.auth_header, auth)