Hacker News Reader

Comment by shmerl | Hacker News Reader

Switched to wcurl from my own alias. It's neat. curl doesn't pollute $HOME unlike wget.

How does wget pollute $HOME?

  ~/.wget-hsts

You can disable creating this file or change its location by adding a config option to ~/.wgetrc (or using args to wget every time)

I think it's for disallowing http when an https connection has previously been established?

It's for HSTS: HTTP Strict Transport Security

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security

So if you're wget-ing a file from a server that uses HTTPS and HSTS, but you only specify http:// (or no protocol at all), then the next time you wget from that server, it will automatically change the URL to https://

It's under .local in Fedora.

They must have patched it, upstream wget doesn't do it.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com