how to feed password to wget securely?

2007-06-29 Thread Matthew Woehlke
http://www.mail-archive.com/wget@sunsite.dk/msg06979.html Did this patch make it into the soon-to-be-released version (1.10.3?)? I need to wget a webpage that wants authentication, and I don't want to have to put it on disk or have it show up in 'ps'. -- Matthew ESIG: .sig file not available

Re: how to feed password to wget securely?

2007-06-29 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Micah Cowan wrote: Matthew Woehlke wrote: http://www.mail-archive.com/wget@sunsite.dk/msg06979.html Did this patch make it into the soon-to-be-released version (1.10.3?)? I need to wget a webpage that wants authentication, and I don't want to have to put it on disk or have it show up in 'ps

Re: Bug update notifications

2007-07-09 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Micah Cowan wrote: Matthew Woehlke wrote: Micah Cowan wrote: ...any reason to not CC bug updates here also/instead? That's how e.g. kwrite does thing (also several other lists AFAIK), and seems to make sense. This is 'bug-wget' after all :-). It is; but it's also 'wget'. Hmm, so it is; my

patch: prompt for password

2007-07-24 Thread Matthew Woehlke
This rough patch adds a '--ask-password' option to wget. About all that can be said for it is that it works; hopefully it will serve as a useful proof of concept and possible a starting point for a fully-developed feature. -- Matthew Resistance is futile -- Borg No, resistance is the

Re: patch: prompt for password

2007-07-25 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Matthew Woehlke wrote: This rough patch adds a '--ask-password' option to wget. About all that can be It's a good rule to send patches inlined rather than attached as that makes them easy to comment on. It's also a good rule to send patches

Re: patch: prompt for password

2007-07-25 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Matthew Woehlke wrote: Read from stderr? I admit I've heard stderr is bi-directional but I can't say I've ever seen it used to read input. Well, `wget' can be used as a filter (and I did do so a couple of times in some scripts in the past; I

Re: patch: prompt for password

2007-07-25 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Josh Williams wrote: On 7/25/07, Matthew Woehlke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any reason you're not replying to the list? (Unless there is, please direct replies to the list.) No, I was in a hurry at the time and forgot to change the e-mail address before I sent it. Reply All ;-) (Although

Re: trouble with -p

2007-08-16 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Micah Cowan wrote: Brian Keck wrote: Sometimes -p doesn't work. For instance: wget -p http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbig-Haro_object In this case, it appears that you've bumped into the fact that wget, by default, will refuse to cross hostname boundaries to download things, unless

Re: changing url

2007-09-18 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Aram Wool wrote: hi, I'm using wget with this url: http://www.twis.org/audio/podpress_trac/web/147/0/TWIS_2007_09_11.mp3 the directory named 147 increases by 1 each week, corresponding to an mp3 with a new date. I can use macros to automatically deal with a changing date, but haven't been able

Re: Wget on Mercurial!

2007-09-19 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Micah Cowan wrote: Since I do virtually all my work on a laptop, which is usually but not always connected to the Wired, I have begun experimenting with distributed SCMs. I have recently been using Mercurial for work on Wget, and then synching the work with Subversion, and am very happy with it

Re: --limit-percent N versus --limit-rate N% ?

2007-10-19 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Micah Cowan wrote: Also: does the current proposed patch deal properly with situations such as where the first 15 seconds haven't been taken up by part of a single download, but rather several very small ones? I'm not very familiar yet with the rate-limiting stuff, so I really have no idea. If

Re: Port range option in bind-address implemented?

2007-10-19 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Micah Cowan wrote: Yes, that appears to work quite well, as long as we seed it right; starting with a consistent Xâ‚€ would be just as bad as trying them sequentially, and choosing something that does not change several times a second (such as time()) still makes it likely that multiple

Re: Problems mirroring an asp website

2008-02-15 Thread Matthew Woehlke
rafael bonifaz wrote: The file is downloaded with no problem. So my hypothesis is that the MS Internet Informatation service is bloking me because wget is doing to many http requests at the time that it may be seen as an DoS attack. Is this reasoning right? I've no idea, but if it is you might

Re: getpass alternative [Re: getpass documentation]

2008-06-03 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Micah Cowan wrote: Wget just added code to the dev repo that uses gnu_getpass to support password prompting. This was mainly because it was quick-and-easy, and because gnu_getpass doesn't suffer from many of the serious flaws plaguing alternative implementations. Hehe, earlier today I merged

Re: getpass alternative [Re: getpass documentation]

2008-06-04 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Micah Cowan wrote: Matthew Woehlke wrote: Micah Cowan wrote: Wget just added code to the dev repo that uses gnu_getpass to support password prompting. This was mainly because it was quick-and-easy, and because gnu_getpass doesn't suffer from many of the serious flaws plaguing alternative

Re: getpass alternative [Re: getpass documentation]

2008-06-04 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Micah Cowan wrote: Matthew Woehlke wrote: Great news, thanks! Now... if Fedora will just pick it up... :-) I don't see why they wouldn't; they're up-to-date with 1.11.3, as of today, which seems like a pretty quick pick-up, to me. Maybe, but Fedora 8 is only on 1.10.2 (the patched Red Hat

Re: Mailing list migration?

2008-07-07 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Micah Cowan wrote: What do y'all think? I think you should remember to let gmane.org know of any changes :-). Other than that, no objections to changing. I'm a bit partial to @gnu.org, as that's (unsurprisingly) the most widely used for GNU projects. -- Matthew First time I've gotten a