[MERGE][1.2][#185394] Disconnect and reconnect the smart medium after getting "unknown method" error from server if a request body was sent.

[Vincent Ladeuil]

>>>>> "john" == John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:

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    >> But for SSH there are already 4 ways to address the problem:
    >> - put user:pass in urls (cough),
    >> - use auth.conf,
    >> - use a caching agent like seahorse,
    >> - use host keys.

    john> Right. Also, this only happens when a newer client is
    john> connecting to an older server. Using a newer server
    john> will "just work" the way we want it to.

Good.

    >> 
    >> So this may not be *so* severe after all ;)
    >> 
    >> That beings said, when we use paramiko, *we* prompt for the
    >> password but I'm afraid that we don't save it in the shared
    >> credentials...

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    john> Interesting. I suppose we are prompting at the wrong level?

Lower than where we can easily save it yes, wrong is a bit hard
though ;) It occurs only if no host key can be found and we make
that check for paramiko only (based on a quick reading of the
code, I may have missed some details).

      Vincent