1 Long: basic 2 Help: Use HTTP Basic Authentication 3 See-also: proxy-basic 4 Protocols: HTTP 5 Category: auth 6 Example: -u name:password --basic $URL 7 Added: 7.10.6 8 --- 9 Tells curl to use HTTP Basic authentication with the remote host. This is the 10 default and this option is usually pointless, unless you use it to override a 11 previously set option that sets a different authentication method (such as 12 --ntlm, --digest, or --negotiate). 13 14 Used together with --user. 15