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http-transport: wget with password in repo URL sends "..." as password #2763

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eamsden opened this issue Aug 14, 2015 · 1 comment
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http-transport: wget with password in repo URL sends "..." as password #2763

eamsden opened this issue Aug 14, 2015 · 1 comment
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eamsden commented Aug 14, 2015

When authentication information is included in the repo url, i.e.
https://<user>:<pw>@<hostname>/
and cabal is configured with http-transport: wget the URL passed to wget has the password component replaced by ...
eamsden pushed a commit to plow-technologies/cabal that referenced this issue Aug 14, 2015
Don't filter password when passing URL to wget. [Fixes haskell#2763] …
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…[Enables workaround for haskell#2761]
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This was fixed by #2890, though other transports still use show uri. We should support this directly by adding per-repo username and password fields instead (#2761).

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