Mark Veltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday 22 September 2003 00:20, you wrote: >> Sorry about the lack of response. Your feature requests are quite >> reasonable, but I have no idea of the timeframe when I'll work on >> them (they're not a priority for me). Perhaps someone else is >> interested in helping implement them. >> >> The things I planned to tackle for a post-1.9 release are >> compression support and proper password "manager". >> >> BTW, have you tried `--http-user' and `--http-passwd'? They're >> supposed to do pretty much what you describe. > > That's weied. I tried --http-user and --http-passwd and all is > working well. According to the documentation the following are > equivalent: > > wget -r --http-user=foo --http-passwd=bar http://my.org > > and > > wget -r http://foo:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > But they are not. Version 1 works while version 2 doesnt ?!?
Does the manual really say that they are equivalent? When you specify `--http-user' and `--http-passwd', they are used for *all* the downloads. When you specify the username and password in a URL, they are used for that URL and not others. That can be considered a bug, but that's how it is.
