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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2016-11-16 14:20:36 +0100 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2016-11-16 15:15:57 +0100 |
| commit | 342aa4797edfabba78755e798d23a5b6d288d50b (patch) | |
| tree | c9607e88e05cef2f5084f6428151c5de52ee2fc4 /docs/cmdline-opts/ntlm.d | |
| parent | c3c1e9618513d245861c35ec0c563ab71ce892bb (diff) | |
| download | curl-342aa4797edfabba78755e798d23a5b6d288d50b.tar.gz | |
cmdline-docs: more conversion
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diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/ntlm.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/ntlm.d new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d71cd43fe --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/ntlm.d @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Long: ntlm +Help: Use HTTP NTLM authentication +Mutexed: basic negotiated digest anyauth +See-also: proxy-ntlm +Protocols: HTTP +Requires: TLS +--- +Enables NTLM authentication. The NTLM authentication method was designed by +Microsoft and is used by IIS web servers. It is a proprietary protocol, +reverse-engineered by clever people and implemented in curl based on their +efforts. This kind of behavior should not be endorsed, you should encourage +everyone who uses NTLM to switch to a public and documented authentication +method instead, such as Digest. + +If you want to enable NTLM for your proxy authentication, then use +--proxy-ntlm. + +If this option is used several times, only the first one is used. |