diff options
| author | Steve Holme <steve_holme@hotmail.com> | 2013-11-12 19:01:04 +0000 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Steve Holme <steve_holme@hotmail.com> | 2013-11-12 19:08:55 +0000 |
| commit | f2584627c8314b5954645ed4e05f48868928bd87 (patch) | |
| tree | 23d3eb15bab917bee8ade395c83d08a44f90c32c /docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 | |
| parent | 6901861fc97f0b3cb9ee8590c449ab6aa2fe0500 (diff) | |
curl_easy_setopt: Added the ability to set the login options separately
Rather than set the authentication options as part of the login details
specified in the URL, or via the older CURLOPT_USERPWD option, added a
new libcurl option to allow the login options to be set separately.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 | 17 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 index fb22306eb..0b507d856 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 @@ -1164,14 +1164,23 @@ user name to use for the transfer. authentication. You should not use this option together with the (older) CURLOPT_USERPWD option. -In order to specify the password to be used in conjunction with the user name -use the \fICURLOPT_PASSWORD\fP option. (Added in 7.19.1) +To specify the password and login options, along with the user name, use the +\fICURLOPT_PASSWORD\fP and \fICURLOPT_OPTIONS\fP options or alternatively use +the older \CURLOPT_USERPWD\fP option instead. (Added in 7.19.1) .IP CURLOPT_PASSWORD Pass a char * as parameter, which should be pointing to the zero terminated password to use for the transfer. -The CURLOPT_PASSWORD option should be used in conjunction with -the \fICURLOPT_USERNAME\fP option. (Added in 7.19.1) +The CURLOPT_PASSWORD option should be used in conjunction with the +\fICURLOPT_USERNAME\fP option. (Added in 7.19.1) +.IP CURLOPT_OPTIONS +Pass a char * as parameter, which should be pointing to the zero terminated +options string to use for the transfer. + +\CURLOPT_OPTIONS\fP can be used to set protocol specific authentication options, +such as the preferred authentication mechanism via "AUTH=NTLM" or "AUTH=*", and +should be used in conjunction with the \fICURLOPT_USERNAME\fP option. (Added in +7.34.0) .IP CURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME Pass a char * as parameter, which should be pointing to the zero terminated user name to use for the transfer while connecting to Proxy. |