bugGNU Wget - Bugs: bug #41002, Credentials in URL not supported

 
 

bug #41002: Credentials in URL not supported

Submitter:  Noël Köthe <nok>
Submitted:  Thu 26 Dec 2013 11:29:17 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Program Logic Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Status:  None
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  Open
Release:  trunk Operating System:  GNU/Linux
Reproducibility:  None Fixed Release:  None
Planned Release:  None Regression:  None
Work Required:  None Patch Included:  None
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Thu 26 Dec 2013 11:29:17 AM UTC, original submission:  

Hello,

a forwarded bug from the Debian bugtracker: http://bugs.debian.org/709637:

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Dear Maintainer,

after the upgrade to wheezy wget (basic http) auth doesn't work like
e.g. in version 1.12 anymore.

In former version the username and password could be given in the URL:
$ wget http://<user>:<pass>@<host>...

Doing so with the new version of wget gives an errror.
Using the commandline options '--user' and '--password' works:
$ wget --user=<user> --password=<pass> http://<host>...

...

> Could you send us the output of --debug?


I just found out the problem appears to be dependent on the server:


1.) Boa server & --user/--password => OK (wget__bad_server__ok.log)

$ wget -d -O /dev/null --user=*user* --password=*password* \
... 'http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80/protected'


2.) Boa server & user:passwd@host => FAIL (wget__bad_server__fail.log)

$ wget -d -O /dev/null \
... 'http://*user*:*password*@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80/protected'


3.) Apache server & user:passwd@host => OK (wget__good_server__ok.log)

$ wget -d -O /dev/null \
... 'https://*user*:*password*@yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy/protected'


In 1 and 2 both the client and the server are the same. In 3 the client
machine is the same again but the server is on another machine and an
other implementation.


Thank you, Hannes

Noël Köthe <nok>

 

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file #30095:  wget__bad_server__fail.log added by nok (3KiB - text/x-log - logfiles)
file #30096:  wget__good_server__ok.log added by nok (3KiB - text/x-log - logfiles)
file #30097:  wget__bad_server__ok.log added by nok (2KiB - text/x-log - logfiles)

 

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