On 2025-11-19 06:47, Goltz, James (NIH/CIT) [E] via Cygwin wrote:
Upon (finally) coming back from the government shutdown, I found a script I
wrote that uses curl had stopped working. I was able to trace it back to
curl's behavior with --netrc-file.
As of 8.17.0-1 (2025-11-09):
--netrc-file full-path/netrc-file does not work
--netrc-file netrc-file works, *if* netrc-file is in the current directory
I've confirmed via rollback that 8.16.0-1 works as it did previously. Curl
8.16.0-1 is able to find the netrc file using its full path.
Has anyone else encountered this?
I only currently use that file in my Cygwin home dir to provide my email address
for Anonymous logins if such are required and honoured nowadays.
No message with default ~/.netrc but using --netrc-file gives [elided]:
$ curl --verbose --netrc-file ~/.netrc ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/
* Couldn't find host ftp.gnu.org in the /home/.../.netrc file; using defaults
...
same with $HOME/.netrc etc, so no obvious issues.
Run `which -a curl` to see which `curl` command is being run from where with
what options?
Run your `curl` command with --verbose to get a diagnostic trace in case there
are issues.
Do you have the HOME env var set to your Cygwin home directory?
Do you have a Cygwin home directory and have you tried using .netrc there?
Do you have a NETRC env var set to the Cygwin path of the file?
Used 1st as of 8.16.0 - except --netrc-file says that overrides all other ways!
That is mutually exclusive with --netrc, and its opposite --netrc-optional,
which allows --netrc-file to not be used, otherwise it is used and must be correct!
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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