curl/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_USERPWD.md
Daniel Stenberg eefcc1bda4
docs: introduce "curldown" for libcurl man page format
curldown is this new file format for libcurl man pages. It is markdown
inspired with differences:

- Each file has a set of leading headers with meta-data
- Supports a small subset of markdown
- Uses .md file extensions for editors/IDE/GitHub to treat them nicely
- Generates man pages very similar to the previous ones
- Generates man pages that still convert nicely to HTML on the website
- Detects and highlights mentions of curl symbols automatically (when
  their man page section is specified)

tools:

- cd2nroff: converts from curldown to nroff man page
- nroff2cd: convert an (old) nroff man page to curldown
- cdall: convert many nroff pages to curldown versions
- cd2cd: verifies and updates a curldown to latest curldown

This setup generates .3 versions of all the curldown versions at build time.

CI:

Since the documentation is now technically markdown in the eyes of many
things, the CI runs many more tests and checks on this documentation,
including proselint, link checkers and tests that make sure we capitalize the
first letter after a period...

Closes #12730
2024-01-23 00:29:02 +01:00

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---
c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel.se>, et al.
SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
Title: CURLOPT_USERPWD
Section: 3
Source: libcurl
See-also:
- CURLOPT_PASSWORD (3)
- CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD (3)
- CURLOPT_USERNAME (3)
---
# NAME
CURLOPT_USERPWD - user name and password to use in authentication
# SYNOPSIS
~~~c
#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_USERPWD, char *userpwd);
~~~
# DESCRIPTION
Pass a char pointer as parameter, pointing to a null-terminated login details
string for the connection. The format of which is: [user name]:[password].
When using Kerberos V5 authentication with a Windows based server, you should
specify the user name part with the domain name in order for the server to
successfully obtain a Kerberos Ticket. If you do not then the initial part of
the authentication handshake may fail.
When using NTLM, the user name can be specified simply as the user name
without the domain name should the server be part of a single domain and
forest.
To specify the domain name use either Down-Level Logon Name or UPN (User
Principal Name) formats. For example **EXAMPLE\user** and **user@example.com**
respectively.
Some HTTP servers (on Windows) support inclusion of the domain for Basic
authentication as well.
When using HTTP and CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION(3), libcurl might perform
several requests to possibly different hosts. libcurl only sends this user and
password information to hosts using the initial host name (unless
CURLOPT_UNRESTRICTED_AUTH(3) is set), so if libcurl follows redirects to
other hosts, it does not send the user and password to those. This is enforced
to prevent accidental information leakage.
Use CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH(3) to specify the authentication method for HTTP
based connections or CURLOPT_LOGIN_OPTIONS(3) to control IMAP, POP3 and
SMTP options.
The user and password strings are not URL decoded, so there is no way to send
in a user name containing a colon using this option. Use
CURLOPT_USERNAME(3) for that, or include it in the URL.
The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this
option.
# DEFAULT
NULL
# PROTOCOLS
Most
# EXAMPLE
~~~c
int main(void)
{
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
CURLcode res;
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/foo.bin");
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "clark:kent");
res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}
}
~~~
# AVAILABILITY
Always
# RETURN VALUE
Returns CURLE_OK on success or
CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.