Proof of concept password caching extension

[Thomas Arendsen Hein]

* David Glasser <glasser at mit.edu> [20070606 18:58]:
> On 6/6/07, Benoit Boissinot <bboissin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 6/6/07, David Glasser <glasser at mit.edu> wrote:
> > > The attached Mercurial extension caches http passwords.  It does this
> > > by replacing the httprepo.passwordmgr class with one that caches to
> > > ~/.hgpwcache/cache.
> >
> > Any reason not to use .netrc (and the corresponding python module) ?
> 
> Mostly that I'm not familiar with it.
> 
> Also, how would you specify the keys that mercurial is looking for
> (realm and uri)?

Maybe by using the full URL as machine name (if that is possible):
machine http://hg.example.com/path/to/repo login foo password bar

Thomas

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