how to set-up HTTPS authentication with client certificate and passwords

[Paul van der Linden]

It looks like the security support in mercurial is not very complete. The  
gui client for windows (tortoisehg) and the eclipse client both just hangs  
when a PEM certificate with passphrase is used. And the same problem with  
repeatedly inputting passwords within one command happens when using http  
authentication. I think Mercurial needs some improvement there.