user_config.authenticate was a Pywikibot-compat feature, recently re-implemented in core T89417. With the switch to requests, this has been unimplemented again.
The fallback is to use netrc to specify the basic auth credentials instead of user_config.
http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/authentication/#netrc-authentication
I am not sure if/how that works on Windows.
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reimplement Http basic authentication | pywikibot/core | master | +4 -3 |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | VcamX | T101226 Implement oauth using mwoauth | |||
| Resolved | None | T108182 ValueError when using OAuth on HTTPS sites | |||
| Resolved | None | T107421 OAuth handshake can't complete for test.orain.org | |||
| Resolved | VcamX | T102602 Add OAuth support for Pywikibot | |||
| Resolved | None | T101494 requests http basic authentication |
Change 220131 had a related patch set uploaded (by VcamX):
Reimplement Http basic authentication