Using cURL with a username and password?
Use the -u flag to include a username, and curl will prompt for a password:
curl -u username http://example.comYou can also include the password in the command, but then your password will be visible in bash history:
curl -u username:password http://example.com
It is safer to do:
curl --netrc-file my-password-file http://example.com...as passing a plain user/password string on the command line, is a bad idea.
The format of the password file is (as per man curl):
machine <example.com> login <username> password <password>Note:
- Machine name must not include
https://or similar! Just the hostname. - The words '
machine', 'login', and 'password' are just keywords; the actual information is the stuff after those keywords.
Or the same thing but different syntax
curl http://username:password@api.somesite.com/test/blah?something=123