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Re: Prompt for username and password

From: Jacky Lam <sylam_at_emsoftltd.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 00:45:50 +0800

only? Is there any technical difficulty or too complex to implement in early
release?

Jacky

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roth, Kevin P." <KPRoth_at_MarathonOil.com>
To: <curl_at_contactor.se>; "Jacky Lam" <sylam_at_emsoftltd.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 9:02 PM
Subject: RE: Prompt for username and password

> Just in case this seems misleading to you too...
>
> curl also has password prompting for HTTP (and proxy) basic auth
passwords. But it sounds like you already found that in the manual. We do
not have anything built into curl that can ask the user for a username in
addition to the password. If you can think of a good way to add this, I'm
sure Daniel would appreciate a patch that makes it happen.
>
> Or, you can write the prompt into your batch script...
>
> Thanks,
> --Kevin
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Stenberg [mailto:daniel_at_haxx.se]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 4:47 AM
> To: Jacky Lam
>
> 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.
>
> The password prompting that exists is only used for SSL certificates and
> keys.
Received on 2002-03-12