[PyQt] Cancelling QtWebEngine authentication with PyQt

[Phil Thompson]

On 6 Dec 2016, at 6:06 am, Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> QtWebEngine requires setting the passed QAuthentication pointer to an
> empty QAuthenticator to cancel authentication
> ("*authenticator = QAuthenticator();" in authenticationRequired), see
> the note here:
> 
> http://doc-snapshots.qt.io/qt5-5.7/qtwebenginewidgets-qtwebkitportingguide.html#qt-webengine-does-not-interact-with-qnetworkaccessmanager
> 
> Unfortunately I can't see a way to do this from PyQt, apart from
> using setHtml to display some error (which seems a bit hacky to me):
> 
> https://github.com/kovidgoyal/vise/commit/749a9c693e4107c073a90042b079dc658ad73564
> 
> Not sure what the best way to solve this would be though...

Sorry, I'm not understanding. What is it you want to do in Python that you can't?

Phil