[wget-notify] [bug #20299] Basic authentication sent in all cases, before challenge is issued

[Micah Cowan]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #20299 (project wget):

Details of the changes I'd like to make in wget's authentication, and the
stop-gap fixes I'm fixing for this bug branch:

http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wget.general

Here's the bit on what is covered in this bugbranch:

. user:pass@ will still affect just one URI; however, it will wait for a
challenge before authenticating.

. --user and --password will wait for a challenge before authentication.
If the challenge mechanism is Basic, it will assume the protection space
is the entire host (which will be tracked with a simple hash table).
Digest and NTLM will be forgotten after each authentication, just as
happens currently.

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