t5563: add missing end-of-line in HTTP header

In t5563, we test how various oddly-formatted WWW-Authenticate headers
are passed through curl to git's credential subsystem (and ultimately
out to credential helpers). One test, "access using basic auth with
wwwauth header mixed line-endings" does something odd. It does not mix
line endings at all (which must be CRLF according to the RFC anyway),
but omits the line ending entirely for the final header!

This means that the server produces an incomplete response. We send our
final header, and then the newline which is meant to mark the end of
headers (and the start of the body) becomes the line ending for that
header. And there is no header/body separator in the output at all.

Looking at strace, this is what the client reads:

  recvfrom(9, "WWW-Authenticate: FooBar param1=\"value1\"\r\n \r\n\tparam2=\"value2\"\r\nWWW-Authenticate: Basic realm=\"example.com\"", 16384, 0, NULL, NULL) = 106
  recvfrom(9, "\n", 16384, 0, NULL, NULL) = 1
  recvfrom(9, "", 16384, 0, NULL, NULL) = 0

The headers themselves are produced from the custom-auth.challenge file
we write in the test (which is missing the final CRLF), and then the
header/body separator comes from our lib-httpd/nph-custom-auth.sh CGI.
(Ignore for a moment that it is producing a bare newline, which I think
is a bug; it should be a CRLF but curl is happy with either).

Older versions of curl seemed to be OK with the truncated output, but
the upcoming 8.18.0 release seems to get confused. Specifically, since
67ae101666 (http: unfold response headers earlier, 2025-12-12) our
request to the server fails with insufficient credentials. I traced far
enough to see that curl does relay the header back to us, which we then
pass to a credential helper, which gives us the correct
username/password combination. But on our followup request, curl refuses
to send the Authorization header (and so gets an HTTP 401 again).

The change in curl's behavior is a bit unexpected, but since we are
sending it garbage, it is hard to complain too much. Let's add the
missing CRLF to the header. I _think_ this was just an oversight and not
the intent of the test. And that the "mixed line-endings" really meant
"mixed continuations", since we differ from the previous test in
continuing with both space and tab. So I've likewise updated the test
title to match that assumption.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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