`.netrc` not read by snap

[crazyscientist]

Minimal reproduction code and steps

1. Install snap: snap install httpie
2. Setup a .netrc file
3. Try it

.netrc

machine api.opensuse.org
login myusername
password mypassword

Current result

$ http --version
3.2.1
$ http "https://api.opensuse.org/source/home:apritschet"
HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
...

Also, in combination with the environment variable NETRC I keep getting a 401 response.

Expected result

httpie should honor the .netrc file even when used as a snap. httpie installed from the Ubuntu repos does.

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Debug output

Please re-run the command with --debug, then copy the entire command & output and paste both below:

$ http --debug https://api.opensuse.org/source/home:apritschet
HTTPie 3.2.1
Requests 2.27.1
Pygments 2.12.0
Python 3.8.10 (default, Nov 14 2022, 12:59:47) 
[GCC 9.4.0]
/snap/httpie/369/bin/python3
Linux 5.15.0-56-generic

<Environment {'apply_warnings_filter': <function Environment.apply_warnings_filter at 0x7ff369fac670>,
 'args': Namespace(),
 'as_silent': <function Environment.as_silent at 0x7ff369fac550>,
 'colors': 256,
 'config': {'default_options': []},
 'config_dir': PosixPath('/home/andi/snap/httpie/369/.config/httpie'),
 'devnull': <property object at 0x7ff369fbdbd0>,
 'is_windows': False,
 'log_error': <function Environment.log_error at 0x7ff369fac5e0>,
 'program_name': 'http',
 'quiet': 0,
 'rich_console': <functools.cached_property object at 0x7ff36a023700>,
 'rich_error_console': <functools.cached_property object at 0x7ff369fc4850>,
 'show_displays': True,
 'stderr': <_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stderr>' mode='w' encoding='utf-8'>,
 'stderr_isatty': True,
 'stdin': <_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdin>' mode='r' encoding='utf-8'>,
 'stdin_encoding': 'utf-8',
 'stdin_isatty': True,
 'stdout': <_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdout>' mode='w' encoding='utf-8'>,
 'stdout_encoding': 'utf-8',
 'stdout_isatty': True}>

<PluginManager {'adapters': [<class 'httpie_unixsocket.UnixSocketTransportPlugin'>,
              <class 'httpie_snapdsocket.SnapdSocketTransportPlugin'>],
 'auth': [<class 'httpie.plugins.builtin.BasicAuthPlugin'>,
          <class 'httpie.plugins.builtin.DigestAuthPlugin'>,
          <class 'httpie.plugins.builtin.BearerAuthPlugin'>],
 'converters': [],
 'formatters': [<class 'httpie.output.formatters.headers.HeadersFormatter'>,
                <class 'httpie.output.formatters.json.JSONFormatter'>,
                <class 'httpie.output.formatters.xml.XMLFormatter'>,
                <class 'httpie.output.formatters.colors.ColorFormatter'>]}>

>>> requests.request(**{'auth': None,
 'data': RequestJSONDataDict(),
 'headers': <HTTPHeadersDict('User-Agent': b'HTTPie/3.2.1')>,
 'method': 'get',
 'params': <generator object MultiValueOrderedDict.items at 0x7ff369c3db30>,
 'url': 'https://api.opensuse.org/source/home:apritschet'})

HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Connection: Upgrade, Keep-Alive
Content-Language: en
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2023 12:11:44 GMT
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
Server: Apache
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Upgrade: h2
Vary: accept-language,accept-charset
WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Use your SUSE developer account"
...

Pardon me for not including all the HTML output.

[remcotolsma]

I was also confused by the documentation:

Authentication information from your ~/.netrc file is by default honored as well.

It does not seem to work within httpie version 3.2.1 at the moment.

https://github.com/httpie/httpie/blob/b16392fbb9aee707c0449f10dab6bfd9ad4b8799/docs/README.md?plain=1#L1357-L1376

Related issue:

• https://github.com/httpie/httpie-ntlm/issues/6

[fkowal]

i am not sure what snap is but i am having the same issue

on mac via brew install httpie