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c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, daniel@haxx.se, et al. SPDX-License-Identifier: curl Long: disallow-username-in-url Help: Disallow username in URL Added: 7.61.0 Category: curl Multi: boolean See-also:

• proto Example:
• --disallow-username-in-url $URL

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--disallow-username-in-url

Exit with error if passed a URL containing a username. Probably most useful when the URL is being provided at runtime or similar.