zsync2 .netrc support

zsync2 does not offer .netrc support.

As a workaround, you can pass credentials directly in the URL like

zsync2 \
  --url=https://$USER:[email protected]/artifact.appimage \
  https://$USER:[email protected]/artifact.appimage.zsync

Any plans to support this?

Apr 08 '24 15:04 lalten

What would you like to achieve? Can you describe your use case for this? Looking at the link, I see that .netrc is somehow related to automatic login (to FTP?) on GNU systems. It is not clear to me how this would relate to zsync2.

Apr 09 '24 06:04 probonopd

.netrc is a standard way to provide credentials and not only used for FTP. wget uses it automatically, and curl uses it when you supply -n/--netrc. My https://example.com/artifact.appimage will return 404 without the right credentials passed in the authorization header.

Apr 09 '24 08:04 lalten

Thanks for the clarification. I don't think this is a planned feature but if we'd get a pull request we'd definitely consider it. My only worry is that it might introduce additional complexity and/or security attack vectors, and hence increase maintenance burden.

Apr 14 '24 16:04 probonopd