On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 12:35:41PM +0100, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> Because there's no way to do it using the TELNET protocol, and all other
> ways to do it requires that you somehow wait or expect some special string
> from the server and then sends the password. That special string can be
> _anything_.
>
> I'd be happy to be proven wrong on this.

There is a way to send at least the user name to the remote daemon "out of
band"; see the -a option of telnet(1): "...this sends the user name via
the USER variable of the ENVIRON option if supported by the re­
mote system." This seems like a harmless addition when the user supplies the
-u option to curl.

>>> Dan

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