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 > -- > http://illegalstateexception.blogspot.com/ > https://github.com/mfriedenhagen/ (http://osrc.dfm.io/mfriedenhagen) > https://bitbucket.org/mfriedenhagen/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:;>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:;>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAK8jvqxMrnvCVyY_piSxLZUM1%2BGEC3%3D%2BFERERSgBXZ5DVDhmPg%40mail.gmail.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Matt Martz @sivel sivel.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAD8N0v8w9PzDftGtD_gkqLtoNzqSJEUBWLuOvEy8xZsCz5PXkg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
