On Wed, 2 Aug 2017, Gisle Vanem via curl-library wrote:

> I.e. lib/netc.c ignores the comment char '#'! Can this please be fixed?
> Something like:

Now pushed as a PR to run the CI tests: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/1723

I also modified test 130 to verify that it ignores commented lines.

> It's also confusing that '%HOME%/.netrc' is NOT
> supported on Windows. An old issue on Win-9x perhaps?
> It would be great that '%HOME/_netrc' only said:
> include %HOME/.netrc

Yeah, it was always "_netrc" since the dawn of time. I can't remember exactly
why but I think there was some issue that triggered it. There's however a
CURLOPT_NETRC_FILE option that can help.

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