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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.