Re: LYNX-DEV Password protected pages during -traversal

[Doug Muth]

Hi Scott McGee (Personal)!  I'm a programmer and I want to do dumb things!
>I was looking at the occurances of INFOSEC in the code (52 places, in 15 files)
>when I noticed that my lynx traversal was not running. I looked at it, and it
>had stopped on a USERNAME prompt for a password protected page. That makes me
>wonder if there shouldn't be either a way to specify username/password pairs 
>for a -traversal, or if we should just skip such pages during a -traversal.

        Specifying your username/passphrase on the command line would be a BAD 
idea.  Anyone else on the system could do a `ps -aw` to get your passphrase.

        Regards,

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