Re: New wget maintainer

2007-06-27 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The GNU Project has appointed me as the new maintainer for wget, Welcome! If you need assistance regarding the workings of the internals or design decisions, please let me know and I'll gladly help. I haven't had much time to participate lately, but

Re: New wget maintainer

2007-06-27 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:33:35 -0700 Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi micah, The GNU Project has appointed me as the new maintainer for wget, to fill the shoes that Mauro Tortonesi is leaving. I am very excited to be able to take part in the development of such a terrific and useful

Basic auth by default

2007-06-27 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Mauro Tortonesi wrote: On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:33:35 -0700 Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Wget should not be attempting basic authentication before it receives a challenge (which could be digest or what have you). This is a security

Re: Basic auth by default

2007-06-27 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Micah Cowan wrote: Mauro Tortonesi wrote: On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:33:35 -0700 Micah Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am not so sure this is a critical point. as hrvoje pointed out, basic authentication is definitely the most used

RE: Basic auth by default

2007-06-27 Thread Barnett, Rodney
Micah Cowan wrote: However, performance at the cost of security is not a trade-off I am willing to make. Regardless of whether digest is widely used or not, any security-minded user who happens to discover the way we do things will be very upset with us, and justifiably so. This situation is

RE: Basic auth by default

2007-06-27 Thread Daniel Stenberg
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Barnett, Rodney wrote: I agree. I discovered this when trying to use wget with an HTTP proxy that uses NTLM. (Is that on the list somewhere?) I'm pretty sure the original NTLM code I contributed to wget _had_ the ability to deal with proxies (as I wrote the support for

Feature request/bounty: Metalink support

2007-06-27 Thread Anthony Bryan
Hi, This is a feature request for Metalink support in wget. Metalink is an XML format for listing the multiple ways you can get a file along with checksums. Listing multiple mirrors allows failing over to another URL. Checksums allow a file to be automatically verified, and repaired if there are

directories

2007-06-27 Thread Mishari Al-Mishari
Hi, I have set of urls to be fetched by wget url1 url2 url3 .. urln I would like to save all files related to one url in different directory (I am using the -p option so more one file miight be fecthed for each url) the urls are saved in an input file. if i used wget -i infile -p

diretcories

2007-06-27 Thread Mishari Al-Mishari
(Note please cc it to me as i am not subsctibing to the mail group) Hi, I have set of urls to be fetched by wget url1 url2 url3 .. urln I would like to save all files related to one url in different directory (I am using the -p option so more one file miight be fecthed for each url)