On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 17:30, Ville Skyttä wrote: > On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 23:58, seth vidal wrote: > > > > One thing missing from the foregoing analysis and design is > > > .netrc support. > > > > 1. we'd have to add support for a new file format parsing mechanism > > I tend to agree with Russ here, and would like to point out that there > is a netrc.py module in Python 1.5.2 and later that does the job. > IANA[python coder] so I don't know how useful that would be. Looks > trivial to me though. doesn't work for http auth at all, though. b/c you could have two different auth mechanisms on the same server with http auth. so machiname foo.domain.com won't be a complete enough match - you have to match subdir. and it is not obvious to me AT ALL that netrc can deal with virtual hosting. -sv
