Comment 0 for bug 98733

Binary package hint: apt

This patch adds interactive digest and basic access authentication for
proxy and www to apt-get (user is requested to enter username and
password in the console if the default proxy username and password
specified in http_proxy or apt.conf are missing and authentication
failed). The -q option makes apt-get automatically fail should it
request interactive authentication.

Extra care was taken not to break other programs that use libapt-pkg,
like synaptic and aptitude, so it should be OK if you recompile them
with this patch applied (even though they won't be able to
interactively request username and password, at least digest mode
*should* work).

This patch is based on my previous patch that implemented only HTTP
basic authentication (bug #409830 in
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=409830) and it was
extended to include digest mode. So, most details in that bug report
about patch implementation are still relevant for this one.