Package: wget Version: 1.17.1-1+b1 Severity: normal
on the cmd line --user-agent="" works as expected with removal of the user agent $ wget --user-agent="" --server-response --debug google.com DEBUG output created by Wget 1.17.1 on linux-gnu. Reading HSTS entries from /home/fulano/.wget-hsts URI encoding = ‘UTF-8’ URI encoding = ‘UTF-8’ ----------time omitted---------------------------- Connecting to 127.0.0.1:8118... connected. Created socket 4. Releasing 0x0000563aaac9ea40 (new refcount 0). Deleting unused 0x0000563aaac9ea40. ---request begin--- GET http://google.com/ HTTP/1.1 Accept: */* Accept-Encoding: identity Host: google.com Connection: Keep-Alive Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive but i just can't get the .wgetrc or /etc/wgetrc to recognise any user-agent combination - i tried: user-agent = "" user-agent="" user-agent = " " user-agent=" " what is the correct formatting or is it a bug? $ wget --server-response --debug google.com ---request begin--- GET http://google.com/ HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: "" Accept: */* Accept-Encoding: identity Host: google.com Connection: Keep-Alive Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive i also cannot use: no-cookies wget: Syntax error in /etc/wgetrc at line 140. Parsing system wgetrc file failed. Please check '/etc/wgetrc', or specify a different file using --config. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages wget depends on: ii libc6 2.21-9 ii libgnutls30 3.4.9-2 ii libidn11 1.32-3 ii libnettle6 3.2-1 ii libpcre3 2:8.38-3 ii libpsl0 0.11.0-2 ii libuuid1 2.27.1-4 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 Versions of packages wget recommends: ii ca-certificates 20160104 wget suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/wgetrc changed: passive_ftp = on http_proxy = http://127.0.0.1:8118 ftp_proxy = http://127.0.0.1:8118 https_proxy = http://127.0.0.1:8118 use_proxy = on secureprotocol = PFS -- no debconf information
