Authorization required for cloning Kallithea with Mercurial >= 6.5.0

[Branko Majic]

Hello,

Attempting to clone the official Kallithea repository (at
https://kallithea-scm.org/repos/kallithea) anonymously with newer
versions of Mercurial seems to fail, and prompts user for credentials:

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(hgtest) branko at che:~/projects/hgtest$ hg version
Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 6.5.3)
(see https://mercurial-scm.org for more information)

Copyright (C) 2005-2023 Olivia Mackall and others
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Enabled extensions:

  histedit  internal  
  strip     internal  
(hgtest) branko at che:~/projects/hgtest$ hg clone https://kallithea-scm.org/repos/kallithea 
destination directory: kallithea
http authorization required for https://kallithea-scm.org/repos/kallithea
realm: Kallithea authentication
user: 
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Based on the realm part - I assume this could be something related to
Kerberos?

From what I can tell, this happens only with "newer" versions of
Mercurial - starting with version 6.5.0. I've tested with 6.4.5 and did not get
prompted for credentials. This testing was all done from within dedicated
Python virtual environment.

Since I am not experiencing the same issue with my test installation of
Kallithea, I assume this is related to how the official Kallithea
instance has been configured. Maybe if it detects that client can do
Kerberos-based authentication it insists on using it?

Best regards,
Branko

P.S.
Of course, could be it's not Kerberos at all, just me jumping to
conclusions. :)

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Branko Majic
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Бранко Мајић
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