Alexander,
First, I would first like to thank you for writing such an excellent
tool. I use lftp almost daily and I recommend it to my colleagues at
work (Alcatel Canada).
This is my first request for changes to lftp, so I apologize if writing
you an email directly is not the correct forum for discussion.
Documentation bug in release 3.2.1:
The du command is missing from the manual page. (It is present in the
internal help command, however.)
Request for two new features:
1) An option to ignore lftp resource files: /etc/lftp.conf, ~/.lftprc &
~~/.lftp/rc. Sometimes I just need to use lftp with the default options.
2) An option to prompt for proxy passwords. For example, my http proxy
setting is:
set http:proxy "http://aeasson:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:8080"
I would like to be able to enter the proxy password from a prompt. This
is more secure than revealing a password in a resource file or passing
the password on the command line (revealed via ps).
It would be nice if the prompt for password could be protocol specific
too. In my case, I do not need to supply a password for our FTP proxy.
Perhaps one way of implementation would be to embed a special matching
string in the password field which would be used by lftp to prompt for
the password. For example,
set http:proxy "http://aeasson:<PROMPT>@proxy.ca.alcatel.com:8080"
Yours most sincerely,
/Andrew Easson
Alcatel Canada
