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2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
4Long: proxy-basic
5Help: Use Basic authentication on the proxy
6Category: proxy auth
7Added: 7.12.0
8Multi: mutex
9See-also:
10  - proxy
11  - proxy-anyauth
12  - proxy-digest
13Example:
14  - --proxy-basic --proxy-user user:passwd -x proxy $URL
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16
17# `--proxy-basic`
18
19Use HTTP Basic authentication when communicating with the given proxy. Use
20--basic for enabling HTTP Basic with a remote host. Basic is the default
21authentication method curl uses with proxies.
22