On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 09:15:39AM +0100, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> I'm quite sure that curl already does exactly this... :-) (I just checked
> the code I didn't actually try this right now.) And unfortunately, there is
> only a USER variable and no PASSWORD one.

Sure enough, it even works! However, the URI syntax which includes the
user name in the URI isn't supported e.g. telnet://user@example.com/
as described by RFC4248.

I did find an RFC (2941) that describes a framework for authentication using
telnet options, avoiding the hack of sending the user name in an environment
variable.

>>> Dan

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