HTTP HTTP GET HTTP proxy HTTP proxy Basic auth # Server-side HTTP/1.1 200 OK swsclose Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:49:00 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 27 the content would go here # Client-side http HTTP with proxy string including http:// and user+empty password http://we.want.that.site.com/278 -x http://f%61ke:@%HOSTIP:%HTTPPORT proxy # Verify data after the test has been "shot" GET http://we.want.that.site.com/278 HTTP/1.1 Host: we.want.that.site.com Proxy-Authorization: Basic ZmFrZTo= User-Agent: curl/%VERSION Accept: */* Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive