Re: new --*user and --*password options

Hrvoje Niksic <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.wget.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Mauro Tortonesi <[email protected]> writes:

> +** Wget now supports the --ftp-user and --ftp-password command switches to 
> set
> +username and password for FTP, and the --user and --password command switches
> +to set username and password for both FTP and HTTP.  The --http-passwd and
> +--proxy-passwd command switches have been renamed to --http-password and
> +--proxy-password respectively, and the related http_passwd and proxy_passwd 
> +.wgetrc commands to http_password and proxy_password respectively. The 
> +login and passwd .wgetrc commands have been deprecated.
> +

Note that the NEWS file is supposed to be (loosely) sorted by
ascending importance.  Not that it matters much, but this change
probably belongs together with the other command-line interface
changes.

> -    { "proxy-passwd", 0, OPT_VALUE, "proxypasswd", -1 },
> +    { "proxy-passwd", 0, OPT_VALUE, "proxypasswd", -1 }, /* deprecated */
> +    { "proxy-password", 0, OPT_VALUE, "proxypasswd", -1 },

Shouldn't these two use the new "proxypassword" command?
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