[Distutils] HTTP authentication support

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 09:38 AM 4/5/2007 +0200, Jan-Wijbrand Kolman wrote:
>So, this needs either a very clear explanation somewhere, or maybe a
>little bit of work on easy_install, in order to "cache" the
>credentials on a host/scheme basis.

I've added an entry to the "tips" section of the documentation (in my local 
copy, not checked in anywhere yet):

Password-Protected Sites
------------------------

If a site you want to download from is password-protected using HTTP 
"Basic" authentication, you can specify your credentials in the URL, like so::

     http://some_userid:some_password@some.example.com/some_path/

You can do this with both index page URLs and direct download URLs.  As 
long as any HTML pages read by easy_install use *relative* links to point 
to the downloads, the same user ID and password will be used to do the 
downloading.