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c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, daniel@haxx.se, et al. SPDX-License-Identifier: curl Long: socks5-basic Help: Enable username/password auth for SOCKS5 proxies Added: 7.55.0 Category: proxy auth Multi: mutex See-also:

• socks5 Example:
• --socks5-basic --socks5 hostname:4096 $URL

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--socks5-basic

Tells curl to use username/password authentication when connecting to a SOCKS5 proxy. The username/password authentication is enabled by default. Use --socks5-gssapi to force GSS-API authentication to SOCKS5 proxies.