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    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.