Christoph Kutzinski wrote: >wget --http-user=theUser --http-passwd=thePass http://theHost/someURL > vs. >wget http://theUser:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/someURL > with BASIC auth
> Or are you really literally writing > wget http://theUser:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/someURL of course not :-) There was no shell escaping involved (username and password both matched "[a-zA-Z0-9]*" and escaping would affect both access patterns the same way, wouldn't it?) With Kind Regards / Mit freundlichem Gruß Holger Klawitter (listen <at> klawitter <dot> de) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]