Commit fa4b4d20 authored by Anthony Bryan's avatar Anthony Bryan Committed by Daniel Stenberg
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MANUAL: clarified user+password in HTTP URLs

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@@ -113,9 +113,10 @@ USING PASSWORDS
   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.
   NOTE! According to the URL specification, HTTP URLs can not contain a user
   and password, so that style will not work when using curl via a proxy, even
   though curl allows it at other times. When using a proxy, you _must_ use
   the -u style for user and password.

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