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List:       wget
Subject:    Re: Wget and .netrc?
From:       Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic () srce ! hr>
Date:       1998-02-19 17:05:36
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"Alexey V. Aphanasyev" <alexis@tangram.spb.ru> writes:

> 1) Wget doesn't understand multy-word password (like "this is password")
> in .netrc. I've enclosed it within quotation marks. FTP works with it
> but wget doesn't. How can I resolve this problem?

"By fixing netrc.c."  :-)  Just kidding.  I'll forward your report to
Gord Matzigkeit, who maintains the file.  Also, I'll try to fix it
myself.

> 2) Wget first tries to login as anonymous. If that fails then it
> searches .netrc file.

I'm not sure I get this.  Isn't Wget supposed to log you either as
anonymous or from .netrc?  I wasn't aware of it trying one and then
the other.

> It in turn drives me in trouble. When I specify globbing character
> "*" in URL then wget fails in attempt to login as anonymous and
> exits with message:
> 
>   Login incorrect.
>   No matches on pattern `*'.

The latter message is spurious.  I'll try to fix it so it is printed
only when there were really no matches.

> The single character "*" prevents all my attempts! How can I change
> this behavior? I can't specify username:password in URL because of
> security demands.

As a workaround, you can specify it in an input file.  For instance:

wget -i - <<EOF
ftp://USER:PASSWD@somewhere.com/dir/file
EOF

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
--------------------------------+--------------------------------
* Q: What is an experienced Emacs user?
* A: A person who wishes that the terminal had pedals.

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