1 Long: basic 2 Help: Use HTTP Basic Authentication 3 See-also: proxy-basic 4 Protocols: HTTP 5 Category: auth 6 --- 7 Tells curl to use HTTP Basic authentication with the remote host. This is the 8 default and this option is usually pointless, unless you use it to override a 9 previously set option that sets a different authentication method (such as 10 --ntlm, --digest, or --negotiate). 11 12 Used together with --user. 13