Fix #22242: Option to allow auths before challenged.

[wget] / doc / wget.texi

diff --git a/doc/wget.texi b/doc/wget.texi
index b0ef808454c974cdb0e1dab841b281ae47c3e270..008e1809e438a711024b4dad0fd9eae65b204821 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/wget.texi
+++ b/doc/wget.texi
@@ -167,11 +167,8 @@ download from where it left off.
 
 @item
 Wget supports proxy servers, which can lighten the network load, speed
-up retrieval and provide access behind firewalls.  However, if you are
-behind a firewall that requires that you use a socks style gateway,
-you can get the socks library and build Wget with support for socks.
-Wget uses the passive @sc{ftp} downloading by default, active @sc{ftp}
-being an option.
+up retrieval and provide access behind firewalls.  Wget uses the passive
+@sc{ftp} downloading by default, active @sc{ftp} being an option.
 
 @item
 Wget supports IP version 6, the next generation of IP.  IPv6 is
@@ -1362,6 +1359,18 @@ This option is useful for some file-downloading CGI programs that use
 @code{Content-Disposition} headers to describe what the name of a
 downloaded file should be.
 
+@cindex authentication
+@item --auth-no-challenge
+
+If this option is given, Wget will send Basic HTTP authentication
+information (plaintext username and password) for all requests, just
+like Wget 1.10.2 and prior did by default.
+
+Use of this option is not recommended, and is intended only to support
+some few obscure servers, which never send HTTP authentication
+challenges, but accept unsolicited auth info, say, in addition to
+form-based authentication.
+
 @end table
 
 @node HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options