Re: http:authorization patch (was Re: [Fwd: Bug#258392: lftp should support encrypted passwords in bookmarks])

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 02:07:14PM +0400, Alexander V. Lukyanov wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 01:28:59PM +0400, Alexander V. Lukyanov wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 05:12:10AM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> > > That's a bit better, but I still have to back up and enter my username.  URLs
> > > copied from browsers usually don't contain it.
> >
> > It should not be very hard to add a setting like http:default-auth to specify
> > default authorization to use if no user is specified. It can be host-specific
> > already (set http:default-auth/*.foo.com user:pass).
> 
> Here is a patch to add http:authorization.

Cool, seems to work.  I havn't looked at the code in a long time; is there
a reason this needs to be http-specific?  If it worked generically, it could
probably supercede ftp:anon-user and ftp:anon-pass: "set auth/ftp://* anonymous:user".

Hiding passwords like "bo list" would be useful, though that'd break
"set > file" scripts without modification (that's one reason I figured it
would fit in bookmarking).

-- 
Glenn Maynard