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@@ -108,10 +108,10 @@ USING PASSWORDS
curl -u name:passwd http://machine.domain/full/path/to/file
HTTP offers many different methods of authentication and curl supports
- several: Basic, Digest, NTLM and Negotiate. Without telling which method to
- use, curl defaults to Basic. You can also ask curl to pick the most secure
- ones out of the ones that the server accepts for the given URL, by using
- --anyauth.
+ several: Basic, Digest, NTLM and Negotiate (SPNEGO). Without telling which
+ method to use, curl defaults to Basic. You can also ask curl to pick the
+ most secure ones out of the ones that the server accepts for the given URL,
+ by using --anyauth.
NOTE! According to the URL specification, HTTP URLs can not contain a user
and password, so that style will not work when using curl via a proxy, even