1--- 2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4Long: basic 5Help: HTTP Basic Authentication 6Protocols: HTTP 7Category: auth 8Added: 7.10.6 9Multi: mutex 10See-also: 11 - proxy-basic 12Example: 13 - -u name:password --basic $URL 14--- 15 16# `--basic` 17 18Use HTTP Basic authentication with the remote host. This method is the default 19and this option is usually pointless, unless you use it to override a 20previously set option that sets a different authentication method (such as 21--ntlm, --digest, or --negotiate). 22 23Used together with --user. 24
