Bugs item #2061610, was opened at 2008-08-20 06:22
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Harald Schwarz (haschwar)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Windows x86: option --netrc uses wrong file _netrc

Initial Comment:
The Option --netrc on Win32 does not lookup the described file .netrc - it looks for _netrc.

How to reproduce it:
- Create variable Home that points to Z:\
- create the file .netrc in Z:\
- add following line to the file .netrc:
machine my_servername login my_username password my_password

run:
curl --netrc --trace-ascii %temp%\curl.log http://my_servername/any_path/index.html

curl.log shows in first line:
== Info: Couldn't find host my_servername in the _netrc file, using defaults

After creating the file _netrc curl finds user + password.
If there isn't any reason not to use .netrc, curl should use the file described in the help-output.

Curl-Deatails, OS-Details:
curl -V
curl 7.18.2 (i586-pc-mingw32msvc) libcurl/7.18.2 zlib/1.2.3
Protocols: tftp ftp telnet dict ldap http file
Features: Largefile NTLM SSPI libz

OS: Windows XP x86, Servicepack 2

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Received on 2008-08-20