diff --git a/docs/MANUAL b/docs/MANUAL index 4e37657781e31fb176493a34c4b3390f2c6660dd..f21154144e7439ed9b4d9e04bf92fc576dbd9137 100644 --- a/docs/MANUAL +++ b/docs/MANUAL @@ -63,6 +63,11 @@ USING PASSWORDS curl -u name:passwd ftp://machine.domain:port/full/path/to/file + FTPS + + It is just like for FTP, but you may also want to specify and use + SSL-specific options for certificates etc. + HTTP The HTTP URL doesn't support user and password in the URL string. Curl @@ -75,6 +80,12 @@ USING PASSWORDS curl -u name:passwd http://machine.domain/full/path/to/file + HTTP offers many different methods of authentication and curl supports + several: Basic, Digest, NTLM and Negotiate. Without telling which method to + use, curl defaults to Basic. You can also ask curl to pick the most secure + ones out of the ones that the server accepts for the given URL, by using + --anyauth. + NOTE! Since HTTP URLs don't support user and password, you can't use that style when using Curl via a proxy. You _must_ use the -u style fetch during such circumstances.