[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > Following the example set by lftp, I'll change Wget to send "-wget@"
> > as anonymous FTP password, with the option of changing it. That way
> > we will have a decent default, and enable the users who know what
> > they're doing to change it to their email address, if they're
> > oldfashioned, or to something even more anonymizing, like "mozilla@".
>
> You mean "-wget@" with no host ?
Right.
> Won't some FTP sites consider that as invalid ?
I've never seen such a site. Apparently netscape uses "mozilla@" as
FTP password. But I was wrong about lftp: they seem to use
"username@" (also without host) as anonymous FTP password. The
misleading part is in the source where a static declaration
initializes the variable to "-lftp@".