Re: wget ignores --user and --password if you have a .netrc

[Josh Williams]

On 9/3/07, Andreas Kohlbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> though the man page of wget mentions .netrc, I assume this is a bug.
>
> For my understanding if you provide a --user=user and --password=password
> at the command line this should overwrite any setting elsewhere, as in
> the .netrc. It doesn't. And it took me quite some time and bothering
> other guys to realise that it seems wget is ignoring --user and
> --password at the command line if a .netrc exists with the matching
> content.

Indeed. Whether this is a bug or not needs some discussion, I think,
but here's a patch to fix your problem.

Index: src/netrc.c
===================================================================
--- src/netrc.c (revision 2376)
+++ src/netrc.c (working copy)
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@
 search_netrc (const char *host, const char **acc, const char **passwd,
               int slack_default)
 {
+  if (strlen(opt.user) && strlen(opt.passwd)) return;
   acc_t *l;
   static int processed_netrc;