Re: wget2 | help for cache file location is wrong (#566)

[Tim Rühsen]

Hey Darshit,

I guess directly replying doesn't reach anyone. Can you add your comment 
on Gitlab ?

BTW, it looks like ~/.wget-hsts is written into on my machine.

tim@ryzen:~/src/wget2$ l ~/.wget-*
-rw------- 1 tim tim 261  3. Okt 2018  /home/tim/.wget-hpkp
-rw------- 1 tim tim 655 24. Okt 19:13 /home/tim/.wget-hsts
-rw------- 1 tim tim 235 17. Okt 19:37 /home/tim/.wget-ocsp
-rw------- 1 tim tim   0 17. Okt 19:37 /home/tim/.wget-ocsp_hosts

tim@ryzen:~/src/wget2$ l ~/.local/share/wget/
insgesamt 16
drwxr-xr-x  2 tim tim 4096  4. Sep 20:08 .
drwxr-xr-x 84 tim tim 4096 30. Okt 20:42 ..
-rw-------  1 tim tim  476  4. Sep 20:08 .wget-hsts
-rw-------  1 tim tim  235  4. Sep 20:08 .wget-ocsp
-rw-------  1 tim tim    0  4. Sep 20:08 .wget-ocsp_hosts

Regards, Tim


On 27.10.21 15:41, Darshit Shah wrote:
> The help output is incorrect in this case. The file should always be placed at 
> `$XDG_DATA_HOME/wget/wget-hsts`.
> Since if the envurobembt variable is not set, the default is ~/.local/share, 
> Wget2 does the right thing storing it where it does.
>   
> We should change the help output to reflect this.
>
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2021, at 14:23, Sandro (@SuperSandro2000) via Public discussion 
> list for GNU Wget development wrote:
> > Sandro created an issue: https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2/-/issues/566
> >
> >
> >
> > According to the help
> >
> > ```
> > --hsts-file           Set file for HSTS caching. (default: ~/.wget-hsts)
> > ```
> >
> > the hsts file should be located in ``~/.wget-hsts`` but actually it is
> > in ``~/.local/share/wget/.wget-hsts``. I find this very confusing. Also
> > with `XDG_DATA_HOME` you can't point it to ``~/.wget-hsts`` because it
> > always appends wget.
> >
> > --
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> > https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2/-/issues/566
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