On 2017-03-10 12:50+0100, Félix Sipma wrote: > On 2017-03-10 12:17+0100, Tim Ruehsen wrote: >> On Thursday, March 9, 2017 5:47:00 PM CET Félix Sipma wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> Would it be possible to add an environment variable to set the location of >>> the hsts-file (by default set to "~/.wget-hsts"), in addition to the >>> existing --hsts-file mechanism? >> >> You are aware that you can put all options as 'commands' into a config file >> !? >> The default is ~/.wgetrc but you can override it with WGETRC env variable. >> If that isn't enough, you can override the above with --config=<file> (or >> --no- >> config). > > No, I didn't know that, thanks! There appear to be no mention of WGETRC on the > Debian sid version of wget. > >>> It would help, to have a home free of configuration and data files. I try to >>> use $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and $XDG_DATA_HOME, but as wget does not seem to use >>> these variables yet, it would probably be simpler to just add an >>> environment variable for the hsts-file. >> >> Use WGETRC and specify 'hstsfile' in that config file to point somewhere >> outside >> the home dir. > > OK. I found no documentation about this 'hstsfile' command, though. > > https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget.html#Startup-File > > It's hard to see if the config is valid or not, or even if it is read, as wget > does not seem to return error if I set "hsts_file", for example.
Another question I couldn't find the answer: does WGETRC expands environment variables? Thanks! -- Félix Sipma
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