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diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/anyauth.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/anyauth.d new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c32d1ed5e --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/anyauth.d @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Long: anyauth +Help: Pick any authentication method +Protocols: HTTP +See-also: proxy-anyauth basic digest +--- +Tells curl to figure out authentication method by itself, 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 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 will +fail. + +Used together with --user. |