| Long: anyauth |
| Help: Pick any authentication method |
| Protocols: HTTP |
| See-also: proxy-anyauth basic digest |
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| 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. |
