| c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <[email protected]>, et al. | |
| SPDX-License-Identifier: curl | |
| Long: anyauth | |
| Help: Pick any authentication method | |
| Protocols: HTTP | |
| Category: http proxy auth | |
| Added: 7.10.6 | |
| Multi: mutex | |
| See-also: | |
| - proxy-anyauth | |
| - basic | |
| - digest | |
| Example: | |
| - --anyauth --user me:pwd $URL | |
| # `--anyauth` | |
| Figure out authentication method automatically, and use the most secure one | |
| the remote site claims to support. This is done by first doing a request and | |
| checking the response-headers, thus possibly inducing an extra network | |
| round-trip. This option is used instead of setting a specific authentication | |
| method, which you can do with --basic, --digest, --ntlm, and --negotiate. | |
| Using --anyauth is not recommended if you do uploads from stdin, since it may | |
| require data to be sent twice and then the client must be able to rewind. If | |
| the need should arise when uploading from stdin, the upload operation fails. | |
| Used together with --user. | |