How to pass empty user ID to lynx?

[DominikHoffmann]

I would like to do something like

lynx -auth:******** <host-url>

but lynx won't pass along the empty user ID. How can I make sure it does?

 

[alexrd]

Hmmm... not sure, but I would try:
lynx -auth=:<passwd>
and
lynx -auth="":<passwd>
based on the lynx man page
That kind of syntax (the double quotes with nothing btwn) fakes out most command line tools....

hope this helps....

-alex