Martin Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Micah Cowan wrote: >> Then, how was --http-user, --http-passwd working in the past? Those only >> work with the underlying HTTP authentication protocol (the brower's >> unattractive popup dialog), which AFAIK can't be affected by CGI forms >> or JavaScript, etc. > > I must admit that I don't understand how it works - only Sun knows, I > guess. Fact is that it accepts basic auth when it's being pushed at it > by wget.
Very interesting. I like the idea of a web interface supporting *both* HTTP and cookie-based authentication. There really should be a way to force Wget to simply send basic authentication. Maybe we should differentiate between --http-user and --http-password and the username/password being sent directly in the URL? Whatever we do, it might be impossible to both satisfy all use cases and avoid an explicit option.
