net/http: add GetBasicAuth method to *http.Request

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by jasper.timm:

For completeness sake it seems that, considering there is a SetBasicAuth method in
net/http which can be used to set the 'Authorization' header in a request, there should
be an equivalent method to GetBasicAuth credentials from a request as well, which given
a request would return the username and password given in the 'Authorization' header.

A discussion was created in the go-nuts google group:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/EZMr3X2NPGc

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Comment 1:

Labels changed: added priority-later, removed priority-triage.

Owner changed to @bradfitz.

Status changed to Accepted.

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Comment 2:

Labels changed: added go1.3maybe.

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Comment 3:

Labels changed: added release-none, removed go1.3maybe.

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Comment 4:

Labels changed: added repo-main.

[kelseyhightower]

Comment 5:

I've submitted a CL for this issue: https://golang.org/cl/76540043

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Comment 6:

CL https://golang.org/cl/76540043 references this issue.

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Comment 7:

CL https://golang.org/cl/76540043 references this issue.

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Comment 8 by matthias.kadenbach:

> Please ping this thread again after Go 1.3.
Ping ;-) GetBasicAuth urgently needed.

[bradfitz]

Comment 9:

This is not "urgently" needed, because it can be done trivially anywhere else. Urgent
would mean you're incapable of doing it otherwise and your site is going down because Go
has a memory leak or is crashing. This is pretty much the least urgent thing ever.
But I agree it makes sense for symmetry.

[bradfitz]

Comment 10:

This issue was closed by revision 29f9f3e.

Status changed to Fixed.