"Dan Harkless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Dan Harkless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Hrvoje Niksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Henrik van Ginhoven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > Great, it's downloading - and wget is smart enough to at least hide
> > > > your password from the output.. though wget *is* masking it with as
> > > > many x's as there are letters in the password, which in my opition
> > > > isn't a good thing,
> > >
> > > You're right. It's just one of those things that "seemed like a good
> > > idea at the time".
> > >
> > > > it would be better if it just changd it to (literal)
> > > > username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/foobar
> > >
> > > Or, maybe we could always use three x's (literally).
> >
> > I think it'd make a lot more sense to use "<password>" (angle brackets are
> > the usual signifier of a name that's meant to be taken as a variable, not a
> > literal, in ASCII). I'll take a look at this.
>
> Okay, here's the patch, which I'm about to commit:
[...]
By the way, Hrvoje, it wasn't clear to me on brief inspection why we
sometimes don't hide the password (depending on the `hide' parameter).
Could this be commented better?
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