curl: provide user and password for apache .htaccess file

Question

I am using `cURL` to test some RESTful APIs. Some of these APIs are served from an Apache machine, and protected with user/password combination using simple `.httaccess` files. Is there a way to provide cURL with a username / password combination as arguments?

Accepted Answer

Use this curl option for the commandline

```
-u "User:Password"
```

More details about this parameter can be found from here.

curl: provide user and password for apache .htaccess file

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