Re: [Bug-wget] wishlist: configure ~/.wget-hsts by environment variable

[Félix Sipma]

On 2017-03-10 12:50+0100, Félix Sipma wrote:
> On 2017-03-10 12:17+0100, Tim Ruehsen wrote:
>> On Thursday, March 9, 2017 5:47:00 PM CET Félix Sipma wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>> 
>>> Would it be possible to add an environment variable to set the location of
>>> the hsts-file (by default set to "~/.wget-hsts"), in addition to the
>>> existing --hsts-file mechanism?
>> 
>> You are aware that you can put all options as 'commands' into a config file 
>> !?
>> The default is ~/.wgetrc but you can override it with WGETRC env variable.
>> If that isn't enough, you can override the above with --config=<file> (or 
>> --no-
>> config).
> 
> No, I didn't know that, thanks! There appear to be no mention of WGETRC on the
> Debian sid version of wget.
> 
>>> It would help, to have a home free of configuration and data files. I try to
>>> use $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and $XDG_DATA_HOME, but as wget does not seem to use
>>> these variables yet, it would probably be simpler to just add an
>>> environment variable for the hsts-file.
>> 
>> Use WGETRC and specify 'hstsfile' in that config file to point somewhere 
>> outside 
>> the home dir.
> 
> OK. I found no documentation about this 'hstsfile' command, though.
> 
> https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget.html#Startup-File
> 
> It's hard to see if the config is valid or not, or even if it is read, as wget
> does not seem to return error if I set "hsts_file", for example.

Another question I couldn't find the answer: does WGETRC expands environment
variables?

Thanks!

-- 
Félix Sipma

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