Allow authentication on custom MusicBrainz servers using Basic HTTP Authentication.

lib/musicbrainzngs/musicbrainz.py

@@ -271,6 +271,7 @@ user = password = ""
 hostname = "musicbrainz.org"
 _client = ""
 _useragent = ""
+mb_auth = False
 
 def auth(u, p):
 	"""Set the username and password to be used in subsequent queries to
@@ -284,9 +285,16 @@ def hpauth(u, p):
     """Set the username and password to be used in subsequent queries to
     the MusicBrainz XML API that require authentication.
     """
-    global hpuser, hppassword
+    global hpuser, hppassword, mb_auth
     hpuser = u
     hppassword = p
+    mb_auth = True
+
+def disable_hpauth():
+    """Disable the authentication for MusicBrainz XML API
+    """
+    global mb_auth
+    mb_auth = False
 
 def set_useragent(app, version, contact=None):
     """Set the User-Agent to be used for requests to the MusicBrainz webservice.
@@ -635,7 +643,7 @@ def _mb_request(path, method='GET', auth_required=False, client_required=False,
     req.add_header('User-Agent', _useragent)
 
     # Add headphones credentials
-    if hostname == '144.76.94.239:8181':
+    if mb_auth:
         base64string = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (hpuser, hppassword)).replace('\n', '')
         req.add_header("Authorization", "Basic %s" % base64string)