Basic HTTP and Bearer Token Authentication

Question

I am currently developing a REST-API which is HTTP-Basic protected for the development environment. As the real authentication is done via a token, I\'m still trying to figu

Answer 1

curl --anyauth

Tells curl to figure out authentication method by itself, and use the most secure one the remote site claims to support. This is done by first doing a request and checking the response- headers, thus possibly inducing an extra network round-trip. This is used instead of setting a specific authentication method, which you can do with --basic, --digest, --ntlm, and --negotiate.