D Richard Felker III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The request log shows that the slashes are apparently respected. > > I retried a test case and found the same thing -- the slashes were > respected.
OK. > Then I remembered that I was using -i. Wget seems to work fine with > the url on the command line; the bug only happens when the url is > passed in with: > > cat <<EOF | wget -i - > http://... > EOF But I cannot repeat that, either. As long as the consecutive slashes are in the query string, they're not stripped. > Using this method is necessary since it is the ONLY secure way I > know of to do a password-protected http request from a shell script. Yes, that is the best way to do it.
