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.netrc not honored if auth-type is used

See original GitHub issue

Once --auth-type switch is used, .netrc is not honored. Authentication details must be provided via --auth switch.

Details:

# http --debug --auth-type=basic example.org
HTTPie 0.9.8
Requests 2.19.1
Pygments 2.2.0
Python 2.7.13 (default, Sep 26 2018, 18:42:22)
[GCC 6.3.0 20170516]
/usr/bin/python
Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64

<Environment {
    "colors": 8,
    "config": {
        "__meta__": {
            "about": "u'HTTPie configuration file'",
            "help": "u'https://httpie.org/docs#config'",
            "httpie": "u'0.9.8'"
        },
        "default_options": "[]"
    },
    "config_dir": "/root/.httpie",
    "is_windows": false,
    "stderr": "<open file '<stderr>', mode 'w' at 0x7fd6490091e0>",
    "stderr_isatty": true,
    "stdin": "<open file '<stdin>', mode 'r' at 0x7fd6490090c0>",
    "stdin_encoding": "UTF-8",
    "stdin_isatty": true,
    "stdout": "<open file '<stdout>', mode 'w' at 0x7fd649009150>",
    "stdout_encoding": "UTF-8",
    "stdout_isatty": true
}>
usage: http [--json] [--form] [--pretty {all,colors,format,none}]
            [--style STYLE] [--print WHAT] [--headers] [--body] [--verbose]
            [--all] [--history-print WHAT] [--stream] [--output FILE]
            [--download] [--continue]
            [--session SESSION_NAME_OR_PATH | --session-read-only SESSION_NAME_OR_PATH]
            [--auth USER[:PASS]] [--auth-type {basic,digest}]
            [--proxy PROTOCOL:PROXY_URL] [--follow]
            [--max-redirects MAX_REDIRECTS] [--timeout SECONDS]
            [--check-status] [--verify VERIFY]
            [--ssl {ssl2.3,tls1,tls1.1,tls1.2}] [--cert CERT]
            [--cert-key CERT_KEY] [--ignore-stdin] [--help] [--version]
            [--traceback] [--default-scheme DEFAULT_SCHEME] [--debug]
            [METHOD] URL [REQUEST_ITEM [REQUEST_ITEM ...]]
http: error: --auth required