On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, Ron Eggler wrote:

> We would like to send a file to a perl file on an https:// remote
> webserver. The browser would ask for user credentials username &
> password. We've tried several things and the closest we've seeminly
> gotten was with "curl -k -U admin
> https://192.168.101.176/cgi-bin/upload.cgi"

-U (uppercase u) sends proxy user name. You use -u (lowercase u) to send
host user name.

> - after this it would ask for the password but then it's still barkingn with
> a 404 about "Authorization Required" - how come?

404 is "file not found", it is not related to authorization at all. I assume
you mean you get a 401 since you don't provide the correct host user name.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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