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bug#35688: url-auth prompt is blank when realm is the empty string
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From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#35688: url-auth prompt is blank when realm is the empty string |
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Date: |
Wed, 15 May 2019 06:15:03 +0200 |
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User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim@fitzsim.org> writes:
> See for example:
>
> (url-retrieve-synchronously "https://outlook.office365.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx";)
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> The attached patch makes the prompt contain the full URL, and applies to
> all auth schemes. However, maybe each auth scheme should decide how to
> handle a "" realm and to fix this particular case I should just change
> url-basic-auth? I'm open to suggestions.
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> Anyway, I'm filing this bug because I think prompting for a username and
> password while not showing the user the requested URL is a usability
> problem.
I think your fix sounds sufficient, so I've applied it to Emacs 27.1 as
is.
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