[bug #57686] Basic Auth: make auth-no-challenge mode by default

[Sergey Ponomarev]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #57686 (project wget):

Ok, I figured out that the main reason for the challenge was not a security
but because we don't know which auth scheme uses server: basic or digest. So
in the response for the first request server returns `WWW-Auth digest` then it
will send password hash instead of clear password as for basic auth.

curl have an option -anyuth that works as wget by default.
So we can make `--auth-no-challenge` by default (i.e. send credentials without
pre-request) and add the same `-anyauth` option as curl have for those who
previous behavior.
I.e. make wget working the same as curl.

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