basic.md (569B)
1 --- 2 c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 3 SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4 Long: basic 5 Help: HTTP Basic Authentication 6 Protocols: HTTP 7 Category: auth 8 Added: 7.10.6 9 Multi: mutex 10 See-also: 11 - proxy-basic 12 Example: 13 - -u name:password --basic $URL 14 --- 15 16 # `--basic` 17 18 Use HTTP Basic authentication with the remote host. This method is the default 19 and this option is usually pointless, unless you use it to override a 20 previously set option that sets a different authentication method (such as 21 --ntlm, --digest, or --negotiate). 22 23 Used together with --user.