I found this when using HTTP authentication, not sure if this is a bug on wget or on the server side. This is wget version 1.10.2 compiled on MacOS X 10.4.8 with gcc 4.0.1 and make 3.80, which shows this behaviour: $> wget -O - --no-cache -d --http-user=admin --http-password=XXXXXX http://192.168.128.23/admin/test/advanced
Setting --http-user (httpuser) to admin Setting --http-password (httppassword) to XXXXXX DEBUG output created by Wget 1.10.2 on darwin8.8.2.