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

Mauro Tortonesi <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.wget.patches
Organization University of Ferrara
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wednesday 27 April 2005 04:41 pm, you wrote:
> 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.

ok. i thought the sorting order was "most recent first".

> > -    { "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?

yes. i knew i couldn't have fixed all the typos in that messy patch ;-)

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