[Python-modules-team] Bug#588246: python-pycurl: exception is thrown when setting NTLM authentication mode

[gomes]

Package: python-pycurl
Version: 7.18.2-1
Severity: important


When calling:

            curl.setopt(HTTPAUTH, HTTPAUTH_NTLM)

The exception below does not describe the problem (not even when following the suggestions from Erich Schubert 
on bug 433941. The exception is:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "siebel.py", line 37, in __init__
    curl.setopt(HTTPAUTH, HTTPAUTH_NTLM)
pycurl.error: (2, '')

Not sure if related, but I found the following in pycurl's ChangeLog which is similarly represents  my issue.
http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/ChangeLog

        * Use Py_ssize_t where appropriate for Python 2.5 and 64-bit
          compatibility.  This fixes the problem reported by Aaron
          Hill, where the exception "pycurl.error: (2, '')" is thrown
          when calling setopt(pycurl.POSTFIELDS,...) on 64-bit
          platforms.

It works fine in sid, with the following versions.

ii  curl                                  7.19.7-1                   Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or FTP server
ii  gnupg-curl                            1.4.10-2                   GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement (cURL)
ii  libcurl3                              7.19.7-1                   Multi-protocol file transfer library (OpenSSL)
ii  libcurl3-gnutls                       7.19.7-1                   Multi-protocol file transfer library (GnuTLS)
ii  libcurl4-gnutls-dev                   7.19.7-1                   Development files and documentation for libcurl (GnuTLS
ii  libwww-curl-perl                      4.09-1+b1                  Perl bindings to libcurl
ii  python-pycurl                         7.19.0-3+b1                Python bindings to libcurl


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages python-pycurl depends on:
ii  libc6           2.7-18lenny2             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomerr2      1.41.3-1                 common error description library
ii  libcurl3-gnutls 7.18.2-8lenny4           Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii  libgnutls26     2.4.2-6+lenny2           the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libidn11        1.8+20080606-1           GNU libidn library, implementation
ii  libkrb53        1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny3 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap-2.4-2   2.4.11-1+lenny1          OpenLDAP libraries
ii  python          2.5.2-3                  An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-central  0.6.8                    register and build utility for Pyt
ii  zlib1g          1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12        compression library - runtime

python-pycurl recommends no packages.

Versions of packages python-pycurl suggests:
pn  libcurl4-gnutls-dev           <none>     (no description available)
pn  python-pycurl-dbg             <none>     (no description available)

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