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AbstractBasicAuthHandler Objects
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`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.