CURLOPT_USERPWD.md (2823B)
1 --- 2 c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 3 SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4 Title: CURLOPT_USERPWD 5 Section: 3 6 Source: libcurl 7 See-also: 8 - CURLOPT_PASSWORD (3) 9 - CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD (3) 10 - CURLOPT_USERNAME (3) 11 Protocol: 12 - All 13 Added-in: 7.1 14 --- 15 16 # NAME 17 18 CURLOPT_USERPWD - username and password to use in authentication 19 20 # SYNOPSIS 21 22 ~~~c 23 #include <curl/curl.h> 24 25 CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_USERPWD, char *userpwd); 26 ~~~ 27 28 # DESCRIPTION 29 30 Pass a char pointer as parameter, pointing to a null-terminated login details 31 string for the connection. The format of which is: [username]:[password]. 32 33 When using Kerberos V5 authentication with a Windows based server, you should 34 specify the username part with the domain name in order for the server to 35 successfully obtain a Kerberos Ticket. If you do not then the initial part of 36 the authentication handshake may fail. 37 38 When using NTLM, the username can be specified simply as the username without 39 the domain name should the server be part of a single domain and forest. 40 41 To specify the domain name use either Down-Level Logon Name or UPN (User 42 Principal Name) formats. For example **EXAMPLE\user** and **user@example.com** 43 respectively. 44 45 Some HTTP servers (on Windows) support inclusion of the domain for Basic 46 authentication as well. 47 48 When using HTTP and CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION(3), libcurl might perform several 49 requests to possibly different hosts. libcurl only sends this user and 50 password information to hosts using the initial hostname (unless 51 CURLOPT_UNRESTRICTED_AUTH(3) is set), so if libcurl follows redirects to other 52 hosts, it does not send the user and password to those. This is enforced to 53 prevent accidental information leakage. 54 55 Use CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH(3) to specify the authentication method for HTTP 56 based connections or CURLOPT_LOGIN_OPTIONS(3) to control IMAP, POP3 and 57 SMTP options. 58 59 The user and password strings are not URL decoded, so there is no way to send 60 in a username containing a colon using this option. Use CURLOPT_USERNAME(3) 61 for that, or include it in the URL. 62 63 The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this 64 option. 65 66 Using this option multiple times makes the last set string override the 67 previous ones. Set it to NULL to disable its use again. 68 69 # DEFAULT 70 71 NULL 72 73 # %PROTOCOLS% 74 75 # EXAMPLE 76 77 ~~~c 78 int main(void) 79 { 80 CURL *curl = curl_easy_init(); 81 if(curl) { 82 CURLcode res; 83 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/foo.bin"); 84 85 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "clark:kent"); 86 87 res = curl_easy_perform(curl); 88 89 curl_easy_cleanup(curl); 90 } 91 } 92 ~~~ 93 94 # %AVAILABILITY% 95 96 # RETURN VALUE 97 98 curl_easy_setopt(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error. 99 100 CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error occurred, see 101 libcurl-errors(3).