driverdan/node-XMLHttpRequest — pull request #78 by Paraknight (2014-06-02 19:13:29+00:00)
Title: Allow auth with just username or just password

This PR makes two changes:

1. You can make requests that require authentication with just a username (no password) or just a password (no username). This seems to be possible pretty much everywhere else (including browsers) and I couldn't find anything in W3C docs that say otherwise (please correct me if I'm wrong). The reason I put this in was to be able to use VLC's http interface that needs a password but with no username.

2. Originally, if no password was given, the password variable would be set to `null`. Later, it would be set to `""` if its type was `undefined`. Clearly the password is never `undefined` because the `typeof null` is `object`. Thus, with no password, your auth info would be "bob:null" instead of "bob:" as it should be. This was fixed and the same was done for usernames to make the first change work.