Re: [PATCH] Prompt for a username when an HTTP request 401s

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>]

Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com> wrote:
> @@ -815,7 +815,18 @@ static int http_request(const char *url, void
> *result, int target, int options)
>  			ret = HTTP_OK;
>  		else if (missing_target(&results))
>  			ret = HTTP_MISSING_TARGET;
> -		else
> +		else if (results.http_code == 401) {
> +			if (user_name) {
> +				ret = HTTP_NOAUTH;
> +			} else {
> +				// it is neccesary to use getpass here because
> +				// there appears to be no other clean way to
> +				// read/write stdout/stdin
> +				user_name = xstrdup(getpass("Username: "));

No, getpass is needed here because its very likely stdin/stdout are
pipes to our parent process.  So we instead need to use /dev/tty,
but that is non-portable.  Using getpass() can at least be stubbed
on other platforms with a different implementation if/when necessary.

-- 
Shawn.