[PATCH 1/2] wget: make default timeout configurable, remove a duplicate line

Harald Becker ralda at gmx.de
Wed Oct 16 19:23:13 UTC 2013


Hi  !

>> GNU wget does kinda cater to this use: you can specify it in
>> the .wgetrc file, but then that's only portable to GNU wget.
>How about adding limited support for .wgetrc then (only for
>timeouts)?

Just a suggestion ...

Support for .wgetrc is much bloat. What about looking for
environment variable WGET_TIMEOUT? Ok it is not compatible with
other other wget versions, but BB wget isn't neither. 

--
Harald


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