Hello Matt, thanks, any chances that this will make it into version 1.8? Regards Mirko -- http://illegalstateexception.blogspot.com/ https://github.com/mfriedenhagen/ (http://osrc.dfm.io/mfriedenhagen) https://bitbucket.org/mfriedenhagen/
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 >> -- >> 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]. >> 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/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. -- 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/CAK8jvqxCEN7K7AuxDoS4KLX-pA9hZTvjUfg0%3D%3DbF0byFZSEeQw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
