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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2005-11-24 07:20:13 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2005-11-24 07:20:13 +0000 |
| commit | b41765f4416b3bdd05694073ae58b8d5a003ec1b (patch) | |
| tree | 938f5521016d10c5bc4337a19b8447de2d6f6738 | |
| parent | 05a6013f4278479841f64a33611e910c38dff7bd (diff) | |
mention the colon-only thing for -u and SSPI+NTLM
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/curl.1 | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index 3e4efa885..cd8d0515b 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ .\" * $Id$ .\" ************************************************************************** .\" -.TH curl 1 "10 Nov 2005" "Curl 7.15.1" "Curl Manual" +.TH curl 1 "24 Nov 2005" "Curl 7.15.1" "Curl Manual" .SH NAME curl \- transfer a URL .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -927,10 +927,18 @@ If this option is used several times, each occurrence will toggle it on/off. Specify user and password to use for server authentication. Overrides \fI-n/--netrc\fP and \fI--netrc-optional\fP. +If you use an SSPI-enabled curl binary and do NTLM autentication, you can +force curl to pick up the user name and password from your environment by +simply specifying a single colon with this option: "-u :". + If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "-U/--proxy-user <user:password>" Specify user and password to use for proxy authentication. +If you use an SSPI-enabled curl binary and do NTLM autentication, you can +force curl to pick up the user name and password from your environment by +simply specifying a single colon with this option: "-U :". + If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "--url <URL>" Specify a URL to fetch. This option is mostly handy when you want to specify |