Curl to prompt a User Name and Password

for .htaccess style password protection, You can code the userid password as in:

curl -u userid:password http://.......

Try the following like :

curl -su 'user' <url>

It should prompt password for the user

Examples:

--user

curl -v --user myName:mySecret http://example.com/foo/bar

-u

curl -v -u myName:mySecret http://example.com/foo/bar

(example for Minh Nguyen see https://stackoverflow.com/a/26826658/3411766)

curl -v -su 'myName' http://example.com/foo/bar

asks for the pw of user 'myName'.

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