Re: wget and sunsolve.sun.com

2008-02-11 Thread Martin Paul
Micah Cowan wrote: Micah Cowan wrote: Agreed. I may hate it, but the fact is that implicit, unasked-for password authentication was working in 1.10.2, and there's no way to get that behavior for 1.11, so it's a lost feature, and needs some means to get it back. Hm, although, now that I think

Re: wget and sunsolve.sun.com

2008-02-08 Thread Martin Paul
Micah Cowan wrote: Then, how was --http-user, --http-passwd working in the past? Those only work with the underlying HTTP authentication protocol (the brower's unattractive popup dialog), which AFAIK can't be affected by CGI forms or JavaScript, etc. I must admit that I don't understand how it

Re: wget and sunsolve.sun.com

2008-02-08 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Micah Cowan wrote: Agreed. I may hate it, but the fact is that implicit, unasked-for password authentication was working in 1.10.2, and there's no way to get that behavior for 1.11, so it's a lost feature, and needs some means to get it back. Hm,

Re: wget and sunsolve.sun.com

2008-02-08 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hrvoje Niksic wrote: Martin Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Micah Cowan wrote: Then, how was --http-user, --http-passwd working in the past? Those only work with the underlying HTTP authentication protocol (the brower's unattractive popup

Re: wget and sunsolve.sun.com

2008-02-08 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Martin Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Micah Cowan wrote: Then, how was --http-user, --http-passwd working in the past? Those only work with the underlying HTTP authentication protocol (the brower's unattractive popup dialog), which AFAIK can't be affected by CGI forms or JavaScript, etc. I

Re: wget and sunsolve.sun.com

2008-02-07 Thread Martin Paul
Micah Cowan wrote: Is there no way to get the server to issue an authentication challenge? A browser would never send authentication credentials without first being challenged, which is part of why I was confident I could get rid of Wget's insecure practice of doing so. After some further

Re: wget and sunsolve.sun.com

2008-02-07 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Paul wrote: Micah Cowan wrote: Is there no way to get the server to issue an authentication challenge? A browser would never send authentication credentials without first being challenged, which is part of why I was confident I could get