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c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, daniel@haxx.se, et al. SPDX-License-Identifier: curl Long: proxy-basic Help: Use Basic authentication on the proxy Category: proxy auth Added: 7.12.0 Multi: mutex See-also:

• proxy
• proxy-anyauth
• proxy-digest Example:
• --proxy-basic --proxy-user user:passwd -x proxy $URL

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--proxy-basic

Tells curl to use HTTP Basic authentication when communicating with the given proxy. Use --basic for enabling HTTP Basic with a remote host. Basic is the default authentication method curl uses with proxies.