HTTP Basic-Authenication

Whith this extension it is possible to define password protected package directories without specifying the password and user in the url.

Example: protected location http://www.example.com/dist

File buildout.cfg: [buildout] find-links=http://www.example.com/dist extensions=lovely.buildouthttp

Create the password file, this file contains all authentication information. Each row consists of realm, uri, username, password.

file ~/.buildout/.httpauth: Example com realm, http://www.example.com, username, secret

Credits

Thanks to Tarek Ziade for bugfixes and extensions.

2009/09/22 0.2.3:

• added tests for the installer
• fixed error when url can't be retrieved: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'url' [naro]

2008/03/22 0.2.2:

• added try/except around the retry section protection against weird URLs

2007/12/08 0.2.1:

• avoid an error when the realm is wrong or the file on bad realms and a few other controls. Thanks to Tarek Ziade.

2007/08/06 0.2.0a1:

• don't overwrite handlers in case a handler already exists. (e.g. in paramiko) thanks to Aaron Lehmann

2007/07/23 0.1.0a3:

• added information to setup.py, moved to cheeseshop

2007/06/21 0.1.0a2:

• Log download failures
• Fixed license header
• Log connections on debug.

2007/06/14 0.1.0a1:

• initial release