On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 6:00 AM, <curl-users-request_at_cool.haxx.se> wrote:
> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 23:08:43 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
> To: the curl tool <curl-users_at_cool.haxx.se>
> Subject: Re: man curl review
> Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1208132253470.31608_at_tvnag.unkk.fr>
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> On Mon, 13 Aug 2012, Anthony Bryan wrote:
>
>> Curl also supports user and password in HTTP URLs, thus you can pick a file
>> like:
>>
>> ...
>>
>> NOTE! Since HTTP URLs don't support user and password, you can't use that
>> style when using Curl via a proxy. You _must_ use the -u style fetch
>> during such circumstances.
>>
>> 2nd HTTP should be HTTPS?
>
> Slightly confusing, but I'll try to explain what I think I tried to express in
> the mentioned text.
>
> curl supports user names and passwords in HTTP and HTTPS URLs, in the style:
>
> http://user:password@hostname/path
>
> However, HTTP URLs don't allow that according to spec. Already RFC 1738
> section 3.3 clearly states that "No user name or password is allowed.". This
> means curl accepts a syntax that the spec doesn't allow.
>
> I don't remember off the top of my head if the above quote is still true, but
> if you used an URL like "http://user:password@example.com" and asked curl to
> use a HTTP proxy curl would send the given URL to the proxy including the name
> and password part and thus a HTTP compliant proxy would not interpret them as
> name and password and the request would fail...

here is my first try. I seemed to have messed up git so please commit
this if you like it. :)

   NOTE! According to the URL specification, HTTP URLs can not contain
a user and
   password, so that style will not work when using Curl via a proxy,
even though
   Curl allows it at other times. When using a proxy, you _must_ use
the -u style
   for user and password.

on to the next file!

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