On 9/30/18 7:49 PM, Gregory R Fellow wrote: > Hi. Is it the intended behavior for wget to allow sending custom header > lines with no value? > > The following clears previous user-defined headers as described in the > documentation: > --header= > > The following both send a header with no value: > --header="Accept-Encoding:" > --header="Accept-Encoding: "
Well, --header is kind of an "expert" option. Possible use is to test web servers. A lenient handling is IMO better here than a too strict one. > This gets an "Invalid header" error from wget: > --header="Accept-Encoding" One of the few checks applied :-) > I noticed this behavior while trying to disable some of wget's > automatically generated headers (which apparently isn't possible except > for User-Agent via --user-agent=). If you need that, please open an issue at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=wget with your detailed ideas. Regards, Tim
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