Merge pull request #100 from theduke/improve-basic-auth

Improve type signature of RequestBuilder::basic_auth().

src/client.rs

@@ -208,10 +208,12 @@ impl RequestBuilder {
     }
 
     /// Enable HTTP basic authentication.
-    pub fn basic_auth(self, username: String, password: Option<String>) -> RequestBuilder {
+    pub fn basic_auth<U, P>(self, username: U, password: Option<P>) -> RequestBuilder
+            where U: Into<String>, P: Into<String>
+    {
         self.header(::header::Authorization(::header::Basic{
-            username: username,
+            username: username.into(),
-            password: password,
+            password: password.map(|p| p.into()),
         }))
     }