I am comparing files hosted on HTTP servers very often (Jenkins XML configs) and in order to be able to access them the user needs to provide basic-auth.
Most tools, like curl,curllib,requests,wget,... are able to transparently load credentials from ~/.netrc files, making easy to work with them.
Still bcomp does not do this and due to this, we cannot use it right away: with bcomp url1 url2, unless these files are anonymous.
Can we have this implemented? Is there a workaround that we can use that avoids adding credentials on the CLI, which is a big security risks.
Most tools, like curl,curllib,requests,wget,... are able to transparently load credentials from ~/.netrc files, making easy to work with them.
Still bcomp does not do this and due to this, we cannot use it right away: with bcomp url1 url2, unless these files are anonymous.
Can we have this implemented? Is there a workaround that we can use that avoids adding credentials on the CLI, which is a big security risks.
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