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