commit f1d58b21fd5fe7dcd8b5330627f7521ac86ffbc0 Author: Damian Johnson atagar@torproject.org Date: Sun May 20 15:24:22 2012 -0700
Citing ticket 4817 in related pydocs
The pydocs warn users of authenticate_cookie and authenticate_password that we can't reliably differentiate certain failures. Citing the related ticket. --- stem/connection.py | 6 ++++-- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/stem/connection.py b/stem/connection.py index b81a8f7..983eb84 100644 --- a/stem/connection.py +++ b/stem/connection.py @@ -495,7 +495,8 @@ def authenticate_password(controller, password, suppress_ctl_errors = True): note: If you use this function directly, rather than authenticate(), we may mistakenly raise a PasswordAuthRejected rather than IncorrectPassword. This is because we rely on tor's error messaging which is liable to change in - future versions. + future versions... + https://trac.torproject.org/4817
Arguments: controller (stem.socket.ControlSocket or stem.control.BaseController) - @@ -559,7 +560,8 @@ def authenticate_cookie(controller, cookie_path, suppress_ctl_errors = True): note: If you use this function directly, rather than authenticate(), we may mistakenly raise a CookieAuthRejected rather than IncorrectCookieValue. This is because we rely on tor's error messaging which is liable to change in - future versions. + future versions... + https://trac.torproject.org/4817
Arguments: controller (stem.socket.ControlSocket or stem.control.BaseController) -