make rbtools work with 1.5.1 with HTTP basic auth

Review Request #2228 — Created April 1, 2011 and discarded

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RBTools

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Make rbtools postreview work with 1.5.1 with HTTP basic auth.
The changes to make this work:
        * Allow auth retries when the URL has changed
        * Allow HTTP 401 to occur when getting root /api
Tested against local review board instance.