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25.1; url-basic-auth passes wrong argument type to url-auth-user-prompt

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From: Sean Allred <allred.sean <at> gmail.com>
To: 26708 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26708: 25.1; url-basic-auth passes wrong argument type to url-auth-user-prompt
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2017 13:16:20 +0000

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Just a small typo, it seems.  In `url-auth.el' at

    (setq user (or
                (url-do-auth-source-search server type :user)
                (read-string (url-auth-user-prompt url realm)   ; <-- here
                             (or user (user-real-login-name))))
          pass (or
                (url-do-auth-source-search server type :secret)
                (read-passwd "Password: " nil (or pass ""))))

`url` should be `href`.

This will prevent a type-mismatch when calling `url-basic-auth` as

    (url-basic-auth "http://my.api.com" t)

The workaround for this bug is calling it as

    (url-basic-auth (url-generic-parse-url "http://my.api.com") t)

This function should be inspected for other such bugs, but this is the
only one I've come across personally.

-Sean



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