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# Curling With Basic Auth Credentials
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I often use `curl` to take a quick look at the responses of particular
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endpoints. If I try to `curl` a URL that is secured with HTTP Basic
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Authentication, this is what the response looks like:
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```bash
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$ curl staging.example.com
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HTTP Basic: Access denied.
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```
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I can give the credentials to `curl` so that it can plug them in as it makes
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the request using the `-u` (or `--user`) flag:
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```bash
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$ curl -u username:password staging.example.com
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<html><body>...</body></html>
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```
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If I don't want the password showing up in my command-line history, I can
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just provide the username and `curl` will prompt me for my password:
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```bash
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$ curl -u username staging.example.com
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Enter host password for user 'username':
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<html><body>...</body></html>
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```
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See `man curl` for more details.
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