[feature] Force check credentials before search

#3906

I noticed that there are some conan package registry that return empty array with code 200 rather than return code 401 while searching packages without a valid credential. (at least including Artifactory and GitLab)

So I request to add an argument for conan search command to explicitly check credentials before search.

[mLisMarcin]

I just had same issue on conan install with expired credentials. It reported that no such package exists. Version 1.50

[PMExtra]

@memsharded So I requested only add an argument to enforce that instead of making it default. (eg. conan search -r gitlab --ensure-credentials ‘private-package’)

Yes, but Conan 2.0 has already changed the default behavior of conan search to be multi-remote. It will return results from multiple remotes defined (it can specify a subset of remotes, even one, but the default is multi-remote). And that doesn’t remove the issue when doing a conan install that operates normally on multi-remote, already in 1.X

I see. I’ve missed this case. So can we add a property for remote to indicate the remote needs credentials or not? (eg. conan remote add gitlab https://gitlab.example.tld --with-credentials)

Or change it by call conan user: (eg. conan user -r gitlab --always-check-credentials username) and use conan user -r gitlab --clean to reset it.