mention the colon-only thing for -u and SSPI+NTLM (b41765f4) · Commits · CYBER - Cyber Security / TS 103 523 MSP / TLMSP / TLMSP curl

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		.TH curl 1 "10 Nov 2005" "Curl 7.15.1" "Curl Manual"
		.TH curl 1 "24 Nov 2005" "Curl 7.15.1" "Curl Manual"
		.SH NAME
		curl \- transfer a URL
		.SH SYNOPSIS
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		Specify user and password to use for server authentication. Overrides
		\fI-n/--netrc\fP and \fI--netrc-optional\fP.

		If you use an SSPI-enabled curl binary and do NTLM autentication, you can
		force curl to pick up the user name and password from your environment by
		simply specifying a single colon with this option: "-u :".

		If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
		.IP "-U/--proxy-user <user:password>"
		Specify user and password to use for proxy authentication.

		If you use an SSPI-enabled curl binary and do NTLM autentication, you can
		force curl to pick up the user name and password from your environment by
		simply specifying a single colon with this option: "-U :".

		If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
		.IP "--url <URL>"
		Specify a URL to fetch. This option is mostly handy when you want to specify