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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.