On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Jacky Lam wrote:

> How can I ask curl to prompt for username input when authenication is
> required? In manual, I can just see password prompting. Thx.

You can't, that's still a missing feature.

You have to spot that it needs authenication and then re-issue a request with
the correct name and password.

The password prompting that exists is only used for SSL certificates and
keys.

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