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DOCS: Added information about login options to CURLOPT_USERPWD

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Steve Holme 2013-04-22 19:21:07 +01:00
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@ -1046,8 +1046,8 @@ the full path name to the file you want libcurl to use as .netrc file. If this
option is omitted, and \fICURLOPT_NETRC\fP is set, libcurl will attempt to
find a .netrc file in the current user's home directory. (Added in 7.10.9)
.IP CURLOPT_USERPWD
Pass a char * as parameter, which should be [user name]:[password] to use for
the connection. Use \fICURLOPT_HTTPAUTH\fP to decide the authentication method.
Pass a char * as parameter, pointing to a zero terminated login details string
for the connection. The format of which is: [user name]:[password];[options].
When using NTLM, you can set the domain by prepending it to the user name and
separating the domain and name with a forward (/) or backward slash (\\). Like
@ -1060,10 +1060,18 @@ and password information to hosts using the initial host name (unless
\fICURLOPT_UNRESTRICTED_AUTH\fP is set), so if libcurl follows locations to
other hosts it will not send the user and password to those. This is enforced
to prevent accidental information leakage.
At present only IMAP, POP3 and SMTP support login options as part of the
details string. For more information about the login options please see RFC2384
and RFC5092 (Added in 7.30.1).
Use \fICURLOPT_HTTPAUTH\fP to specify the authentication method for HTTP based
connections.
.IP CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD
Pass a char * as parameter, which should be [user name]:[password] to use for
the connection to the HTTP proxy. Use \fICURLOPT_PROXYAUTH\fP to decide
the authentication method.
the connection to the HTTP proxy.
Use \fICURLOPT_PROXYAUTH\fP to specify the authentication method.
.IP CURLOPT_USERNAME
Pass a char * as parameter, which should be pointing to the zero terminated
user name to use for the transfer.