From: David Pursehouse Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:37:53 +0000 (+0900) Subject: Move netrc authentication documentation under the Basic Auth section X-Git-Tag: 2.0~18^2 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c88fd8cc9dabb40d4737f61cbbbb87555ca88a00;p=services%2Fpython-requests.git Move netrc authentication documentation under the Basic Auth section --- diff --git a/docs/user/authentication.rst b/docs/user/authentication.rst index 5615a6c..6c213ea 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 --------------------