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 about it, we _could_ have used --header
to take care of this. Dunno why that didn't occur to me to suggest this
before now. Though, of course, that's hardly a "user-friendly" option.
That's what I did as a workaround. Of course it means that I have to do
the base64 calculation for "user:passwd" myself before feeding it into
wget's --header. As you say, not really user friendly.
I have now tested with Wget 1.11.1-b2092 and its new --auth-no-challenge
option, and can confirm that it works - thanks. Of course I'll still
have to check for v1.11 forever and use the --header workaround, as I
can't control which version of wget is on a user's system.
BTW - another suggestion regarding wget --version: It would be great to
have a way to get a version number which can be handled more easily. I'm
now reading e.g. "1.10.2" and compute 1*10000 + 10*100 + 2 to get
"11002", or "11100" for v1.11. This can be used with >=, <= etc. to do
version checks in a simple way. In pca I'm using the ISO date (YYYYMMDD)
as a version string for that very reason.
Martin.
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