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     You may also find useful the following article on fetching web resources
     with Python:
 
-    * `Basic Authentication <https://web.archive.org/web/20201215133350/http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/authentication.shtml>`_
+    * `Basic Authentication`_
 
-        A tutorial on *Basic Authentication*, with examples in Python.
+      A tutorial on *Basic Authentication*, with examples in Python.
+
+.. _Basic Authentication: https://web.archive.org/web/20201215133350/http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/authentication.shtml
 
 **urllib.request** is a Python module for fetching URLs
 (Uniform Resource Locators). It offers a very simple interface, in the form of