- enable cookies to speed up the auth process - I don't know why it was disabled at all but it was probably due to #378421 ("http cookie errors with osc") but this is already resolved

- this should fix #477690 ("osc fetching binaries really slow")

osc/core.py

@@ -1476,13 +1476,8 @@ def http_request(method, url, headers={}, data=None, file=None):
 
     try:
         fd = urllib2.urlopen(req, data=data)
-
-    except urllib2.HTTPError:
-        # make sure that cookies are saved nevertheless
-        if hasattr(conf.cookiejar, 'save'):
-            conf.cookiejar.save(ignore_discard=True)
-        # handle the exception elsewhere
-        raise
+    finally:
+        conf.cookiejar.save(ignore_discard=True)
 
     if filefd: filefd.close()