curl/docs/cmdline-opts/basic.md
Daniel Stenberg fe9f68fa61
cmdline-opts: shorter help texts
In an effort to increase the readability of the "--help all" output on
narrow (80 column) terminals.

Co-authored-by: Jay Satiro

Closes #13169
2024-03-25 13:05:24 +01:00

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Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. curl basic HTTP Basic Authentication HTTP auth 7.10.6 mutex
proxy-basic
-u name:password --basic $URL

--basic

Use HTTP Basic authentication with the remote host. This method is the default and this option is usually pointless, unless you use it to override a previously set option that sets a different authentication method (such as --ntlm, --digest, or --negotiate).

Used together with --user.