Michael Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> However, I have a comment: There is simple logic that would solve
> this problem. WGet, when it reads a line in the configuration file,
> probably now strips off trailing spaces (hex 20, decimal 32). I
> suggest that it strip off both trailing spaces and control
> characters (characters with hex values of 1F or less, decimal values
> of 31 or less). This is a simple change that would work in all
> cases.

The problem here is that I don't want Wget to randomly strip off
characters from its input.  Although the control characters are in
most cases a sign of corruption, I don't want Wget to be the judge of
that.

Wget currently has clearly defined parsing process: strip whitespaces
at the beginning and end of line, and around the `=' token.  Stripping
all the control characters would IMHO be a very random thing to do.

If I implemented the support for ^Z, I'd only strip it if it occurred
at the end of file, and that's somewhat harder.

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