Re: [Bug-wget] warning about unknown .wgetrc directives

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Hi Karl,

address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:

> Giuseppe et al.,
>
> I suggest making unknown .wgetrc directives a warning (and just ignore
> them, proceeding on normally), rather than a failure.  For purposes of
> compatibility - a person might have a brand-new wget on system A, but
> for whatever reason, have to run an older wget on system B.  But it's
> convenient to have the same wget regardless.

In general I tend to agree with you as it makes easier to reuse
the .wgetrc file but I think problems with unknown directives should
still be threated as errors.
It may happen that we will add some security related directive,
and while users rely on wget to honor that, wget instead will simply
ignore it and give the impression it works.

Unless we add something like --ignore-wgetrc-errors...

Regards,
Giuseppe