Hello Matt,

thanks, any chances that this will make it into version 1.8?
Regards Mirko
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On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Matt Martz <[email protected]> wrote:
> You might be interested in
> https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/pull/153
>
>
> On Sunday, November 23, 2014, Mirko Friedenhagen <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> we provide user specific settings for our Maven repository via a HTTP
>> GET request[1], but have the usecase that "anonymous" has read-only
>> access, so authentication is not strictly enforced.
>>
>> I try to setup our CI system with ansible coming from a shell based
>> setup, where I have:
>>
>> curl --netrc -o ~/.m2/settings.xml http://repo/path/settings.xml
>>
>> Now, curl sends the basic auth header in any case, while get_url[2]
>> waits for a 401 to come back before offering credentials. So with
>> get_url the credentials are not used but the settings.xml for
>> anonymous are downloaded.
>>
>> I could implement a PR with an option to send authentication
>> preemptively and default to the current behavior.
>>
>> On the other hand I think anyone using get_url with url_password knows
>> that authentication is needed, so IMO sending the auth-header directly
>> by default would be more useful and the current behavior only produces
>> the overhead of additional requests.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards Mirko
>> [1] we use Artifactory templating here.
>> [2] inspecting ansible/module_utils/urls.py
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