proxy authentication: how to hide password

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anthony_barker at hotmail.com (Anthony_Barker) wrote in message news:<899f842.0202120818.11412d4b at posting.google.com>...
> 
> But don't feel bad - Perl has a similar issue - but uses an
> environment variable instead. I also use wget - this uses the .wgetrc
> (yet another location for the password).

I _feel_ bad - Perl didn't ask me any password when I run similar
script. Neither did I defined any environment variables.

> prompt for the password if need be.

That's so painful to enter your login&password every time the script
is running... ;-(

Anyway, thanks for you ideas.

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