> ai.ki sam something > nipl.net sam whatever > This looks much like a reinvention of netrc. Netrc is already > there and widespread. Also, users know that it contains sensible > data. The things not so perfect of netrc are minor compared to > that.
A good point, in fact curl can use .netrc directly, which would solve his entire problem. Anyhow, I like to mention simple, sane, text file formats: tabular / delimited (awk friendly), key:value record sets, and NOT including sqlite! Sam