Add .netrc support when using --auth-type bearer

[pwagland]

Checklist

• I've searched for similar feature requests. The closest I found is where this was implemented in xh

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Enhancement request

When using https, I don't want to have to hard-code my token in all scripts, rather I would like to have a central location where the token can be read from. This already works for the basic authentication type, but not, as far as I can tell, for the bearer auth type.

If this is implemented, then this enhancement request is to document it clearly, what needs to be in the file as https://httpie.io/docs/cli/netrc does not seem to cover it.

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Problem it solves

I'm always frustrated when writing a script that I need to hard code the token in it, as it makes the script harder to share.

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Additional information, screenshots, or code examples

This is implemented in xh and with the following in the .netrc:

machine host.local.lan password SecretToken

then

xh --json --auth-type bearer "https://host.local.lan/rest/api/latest/…"

Correctly sends the header:

Authorization: Bearer SecretToken

It would be great if httpie would support this same functionality.