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Annotation of embedaddon/curl/docs/cmdline-opts/anyauth.d, revision 1.1

1.1     ! misho       1: Long: anyauth
        !             2: Help: Pick any authentication method
        !             3: Protocols: HTTP
        !             4: See-also: proxy-anyauth basic digest
        !             5: ---
        !             6: Tells curl to figure out authentication method by itself, and use the most
        !             7: secure one the remote site claims to support. This is done by first doing a
        !             8: request and checking the response-headers, thus possibly inducing an extra
        !             9: network round-trip. This is used instead of setting a specific authentication
        !            10: method, which you can do with --basic, --digest, --ntlm, and --negotiate.
        !            11: 
        !            12: Using --anyauth is not recommended if you do uploads from stdin, since it may
        !            13: require data to be sent twice and then the client must be able to rewind. If
        !            14: the need should arise when uploading from stdin, the upload operation will
        !            15: fail.
        !            16: 
        !            17: Used together with --user.