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Enable HttpDownloader to use URL-based HTTP Basic Authentication.

username-removed-306277 requested to merge cmorgner/fdroidclient:master into master

This is a very small merge request that adds the possibility to use URL-based HTTP Basic Authentication in a repository URL. With this change you can for example use https://user:password@my.repo.com to authenticate against a private repository.

It would be great if you could merge my little feature request into the master, or let me know what I can do or have to change in order for the merge request to get accepted.

I'm of course open for discussion. My use-case is the identification of individual users. We dynamically create a signed index.jar file for each user which contains an individual set of apps depending on the permissions of the user etc.

HTTP Basic Authentication is on of the possible solutions, another solution would be to use the Android Account Manager, but this would be a much larger change.

Thank you for your consideration.

Best regards, Christian Morgner

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