Daniel Stenberg wrote:

>> If I disable gist.githubusercontent.com from the _netrc, even then this
>> header is sent. This auth-data is then coming the 'default login anonymous' line.
>
> curl doesn't read the .netrc by default so you've asked it to use this file somehow?

Obviously. In my %APPDATA%/_curlrc, I have a:
   netrc

which is what I want and that works in all cases. Esp. with FTP,
but not with the gist.githubusercontent.com host.

I'm not sure what the definitive RFC says about sending "Authorization: "
when not asked for. Or if simply Github's server is too strict.

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