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| author | David Pursehouse <david.pursehouse@gmail.com> | 2013-07-19 22:37:53 +0900 |
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| committer | David Pursehouse <david.pursehouse@gmail.com> | 2013-07-19 22:37:57 +0900 |
| commit | c88fd8cc9dabb40d4737f61cbbbb87555ca88a00 (patch) | |
| tree | 4a3d1b4e42e858206d944aae2be3c90f6c0e37f6 /docs | |
| parent | 6f6a920a68d858a89cf8a7a32d6faa1f164738ff (diff) | |
| download | python-requests-c88fd8cc9dabb40d4737f61cbbbb87555ca88a00.tar.gz | |
Move netrc authentication documentation under the Basic Auth section
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/user/authentication.rst | 22 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/docs/user/authentication.rst b/docs/user/authentication.rst index 5615a6c1..6c213eaa 100644 --- a/docs/user/authentication.rst +++ b/docs/user/authentication.rst @@ -32,6 +32,17 @@ Providing the credentials in a tuple like this is exactly the same as the ``HTTPBasicAuth`` example above. +netrc Authentication +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +If no authentication method is given with the ``auth`` argument, Requests will +attempt to get the authentication credentials for the URL's hostname from the +user's netrc file. + +If credentials for the hostname are found, the request is sent with HTTP Basic +Auth. + + Digest Authentication --------------------- @@ -63,17 +74,6 @@ For more information on how to OAuth flow works, please see the official `OAuth` For examples and documentation on requests-oauthlib, please see the `requests_oauthlib`_ repository on GitHub -netrc Authentication --------------------- - -If no authentication method is given with the ``auth`` argument, Requests will -attempt to get the authentication credentials for the URL's hostname from the -user's netrc file. - -If credentials for the hostname are found, the request is sent with HTTP Basic -Auth. - - Other Authentication -------------------- |
