http: simplify authentication mechanisms
Hold an individual authentication context instead of trying to maintain all the contexts; we can select the preferred context during the initial negotiation. Subsequent authentication steps will re-use the chosen authentication (until such time as it's rejected) instead of trying to manage multiple contexts when all but one will never be used (since we can only authenticate with a single mechanism at a time.) Also, when we're given a 401 or 407 in the middle of challenge/response handling, short-circuit immediately without incrementing the retry count. The multi-step authentication is expected, and not a "retry" and should not be penalized as such. This means that we don't need to keep the contexts around and ensures that we do not unnecessarily fail for too many retries when we have challenge/response auth on a proxy and a server and potentially redirects in play as well.
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