Add support for basic HTTP authentication about desktop HOT 7 CLOSED

Maybe possible, the API has been just tested at dca9b62.
But Electron doesn't support any input dialog such as window.prompt, so the app has to implement on its own.

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Let me jump in here, I had solved the problem in a not-so-graceful but effective way once for a different app, perhaps this experience can come in handy (did spend some hours testing various libraries which refused to work before coming up with this):

var app = require('app');
var BrowserWindow = require('browser-window');

var prompt = require('sync-prompt').prompt;

var name = prompt('Username: ');
var password = prompt.hidden('Password: ');

app.on('login', function (event, webContents, request, authInfo, callback) {
  event.preventDefault();
  console.log("Replacing default auth behaviour.");
  callback(name, password);
});

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Thank you for feedback. I think It will work, however users have to use command-line and keep it opened.

Note: callback() can be called asynchronously, so sync-prompt might not be necessary. Then, sync-prompt is a native module, so it's a little hard to compile release version. (On my environment, Windows 10 + Node 4.2.2 + VS2015 Update1, I could not compile sync-prompt.)

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readline-sync might be nice for @mgielda's example. It looks JavaScript.

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@yuya-oc indeed it works (sorry it took some time to answer) - so I agree, the updated snippet is:

var readlineSync = require('readline-sync'); //tested on readline-sync 1.4.1

var username = readlineSync.question('Username: ');
var password = readlineSync.question('Password: ', {
  hideEchoBack: true // The typed text on screen is hidden by `*` (default). 
});

app.on('login', function (event, webContents, request, authInfo, callback) {
  event.preventDefault();
  console.log("Replacing default auth behaviour.");
  callback(username, password);
});

How should we proceed with that? There needs to be some config option for this I suppose. I agree that doing a graphical version later is a good idea but for now this would be good enough. Should we perhaps propose a pull request?

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Sorry! You are right of course. Habit from my own projects.

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