On Tue, 21 May 2002, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Now, something occurs to ME. There really SHOULD be an alternate means of prompting the user for a password (i.e. something which is not readily visible through ps, (or saved to a history file) I mean REALLY. wget shows username:*password* in its output, is this supposed to make us think the program is protecting that password from prying eyes in some way?
Ideally like with some browsers, if you specify ftp://username@domain, you get a prompt. > On Tue, 21 May 2002, Andrew Mayo wrote: > > > Unlike ncftpget and ncftpput, wget appears to have no mechanism for > > controlling ftp authentication. It always appears to perform an > > anonymous ftp transfer with no supplied password. > > > > However, it would be desirable to allow a user and password override to > > allow wget to retrieve from password-protected ftp sites. Is there any > > plan to provide this feature? > > > > uh? > > wget ftp://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. Standard url format with any > browser from lynx to ie6. >
