Hi,
The --post-file argument specifies all the headers that wget uses to
make its request. Whenever you use authentication over HTTP, there must
be an Authorization: Basic (blah blah blah) header for the
authentication mechanism to work. So if you specify your own --post-
file, you need to
It works on a 8.04 but doesn't in 8.10, so it's clearly a regression,
not a feature request.
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--http-user and --http-password ignored
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/352372
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Oops, I missed that it worked before. You're right, it's definitely
something that needs to be fixed.
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--http-user and --http-password ignored
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/352372
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Actually, that's a feature, not a bug. It is not appropriate (nor
secure) for any web-authenticating tool to assume that the appropriate
authentication mechanism to use is HTTP Basic, which always sends
barely-obfuscated, cleartext passwords. Previous behavior doing so was
in violation of relevant
