[Xymon] Hide usernam and password in http test

[Jeremy Laidman]

The online manpage (probably the most up-to-date) says that the netrc file
is in $XYMON/etc/netrc - note that there is no dot in the filename.

https://xymon.sourceforge.io/xymon/help/manpages/man1/xymonnet.1.html

On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 at 22:45, Chris Pretorius <chrisp at lightstone.co.za>
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> Hi
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> Im running a xymon server installed from the Terabithia repository
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> Release: xymon-4.3.30-1
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> I added a http test that requires basic authentication. The password has
> special characters.
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> The test works when I add the username and password in the full url, ie.
> https://server/page.htm?user=User&password=p@sw0rd
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> The man pages mention a file ~/.netrc where you can store username and
> password for basic authentication
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> Which directory should the file be stored on the server.
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> Best regards
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