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1.1     ! misho       1: Long: proxy-user
        !             2: Short: U
        !             3: Arg: <user:password>
        !             4: Help: Proxy user and password
        !             5: ---
        !             6: Specify the user name and password to use for proxy authentication.
        !             7: 
        !             8: If you use a Windows SSPI-enabled curl binary and do either Negotiate or NTLM
        !             9: authentication then you can tell curl to select the user name and password
        !            10: from your environment by specifying a single colon with this option: "-U :".
        !            11: 
        !            12: On systems where it works, curl will hide the given option argument from
        !            13: process listings. This is not enough to protect credentials from possibly
        !            14: getting seen by other users on the same system as they will still be visible
        !            15: for a brief moment before cleared. Such sensitive data should be retrieved
        !            16: from a file instead or similar and never used in clear text in a command line.
        !            17: 
        !            18: If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.