Ticket #67 (defect)

Hi. It seems that I need to keep my Pylons app working in 2.4 for the near future. When I upgraded Pylons to 0.9.7 I needed the new AuthKit? but I ran into a problem getting the tests to pass in 2.4.

Specifically:

Traceback (most recent call last):
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File "/Users/kumar/src/AuthKit/authkit/authenticate/__init__.py", line 582, in sample_app
    authorize_request(environ, RemoteUser())
  File "/Users/kumar/src/AuthKit/authkit/authorize/wsgi_adaptors.py", line 198, in authorize_request
    _PermissionStartResponse
  File "/Users/kumar/src/AuthKit/authkit/permissions.py", line 174, in check
    raise NotAuthenticatedError('Not Authenticated')
TypeError: exceptions must be classes, instances, or strings (deprecated), not NotAuthenticatedError

This is because Exceptions were not new-style classes until 2.5. WebOb? has a workaround for this but a couple changes were needed to bring that support to AuthKit?. I am attaching a patch that does the following:

• When 2.4 is detected, raises NotAuthenticatedError().exception (a special attribute from webob)
• Included a custom version of paste.httpexceptions.HTTPExceptionHandler with AuthKit? that has a minor modification to which exception types are caught
• I fixed a few errors not relating to this: webob was sending the header "text/plain; charset=utf8" but AuthKit? tests were expecting "text/plain"

After the patch, AuthKit? tests run in both 2.4 and 2.5

Shoot me an email if you have questions: kumar.mcmillan@gmail.com and thanks for creating and maintaing AuthKit? -- we're using it for LDAP auth in Pylons and it works well.