NAME

       CURLOPT_USERPWD - user name and password to use in authentication

SYNOPSIS

       #include <curl/curl.h>

       CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_USERPWD, char *userpwd);

DESCRIPTION

       Pass  a  char  *  as parameter, pointing to a zero terminated login details string for the
       connection. The format of which is: [user name]:[password].

       When using Kerberos V5 authentication with a Windows based server, you should specify  the
       user  name  part  with  the  domain  name in order for the server to successfully obtain a
       Kerberos Ticket. If you don't then the initial part of the  authentication  handshake  may
       fail.

       When using NTLM, the user name can be specified simply as the user name without the domain
       name should the server be part of a single domain and forest.

       To specify the domain name use either Down-Level Logon Name or UPN (User  Principal  Name)
       formats. For example, EXAMPLE\user and user@example.com respectively.

       Some HTTP servers (on Windows) support inclusion of the domain for Basic authentication as
       well.

       When using HTTP and CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION(3), libcurl might perform several  requests  to
       possibly  different  hosts.  libcurl  will only send this user and password information to
       hosts using the initial host name (unless  CURLOPT_UNRESTRICTED_AUTH(3)  is  set),  so  if
       libcurl  follows locations to other hosts it will not send the user and password to those.
       This is enforced to prevent accidental information leakage.

       Use CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH(3) to specify the authentication method for HTTP based connections or
       CURLOPT_LOGIN_OPTIONS(3) to control IMAP, POP3 and SMTP options.

       The  user  and  password  strings are not URL decoded, so there's no way to send in a user
       name containing a colon using this option. Use CURLOPT_USERNAME(3) for that, or include it
       in the URL.

       The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this option.

DEFAULT

       NULL

PROTOCOLS

       Most

EXAMPLE

       CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
       if(curl) {
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com/foo.bin");

         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "clark:kent");

         ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);

         curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
       }

AVAILABILITY

       Always

RETURN VALUE

       Returns CURLE_OK on success or CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.

SEE ALSO

       CURLOPT_USERNAME(3), CURLOPT_PASSWORD(3), CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD(3),