Re: [Bug-wget] problems with some wget versions for LDAP authentication

[Tim Rühsen]

Hello Irina.

On Montag, 15. August 2016 15:18:50 CEST Irina Gerasimov wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> we use an LDAP authentication scheme on our servers at GES DISC NASA
> GSFC to authenticate data access. We discovered that some wget versions
> do not correctly pass credentials to the LDAP server. To our knowledge
> wget 1.12 and lower as well as wget 1.17 do not work as expected and
> wget 1.14, 1.15 and 1.18 work.
> 
> I will greatly appreciate if you could look into this and see if you
> correct issue in wget past 1.14 as we advise to our users to download
> wget 1.14 and higher.

Looking into the change history, we fixed a regression in 1.17 regarding HTTP 
authentication.  From what I can see, only 1.17 is affected, 1.17.1 fixes it.
(Your issue is not LDAP but HTTP authentication.)

Please advice your users not use 1.17 since authentication is broken.
Meanwhile, all maintained distributions should provide 1.17.1 or 1.18 instead 
of 1.17.

Wget 1.18 is the current version.

Regards, Tim

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