httpie authentication ¶

Description ¶

The currently supported authentication schemes are Basic and Digest (see auth plugins for more).

There are two flags that control authentication:

--auth , -a

Pass a username:password pair as the argument.

Example:

           http -b -a <username>:<password> "http://<hostname>/programs/<function>/?xx=aaa=&&yyy=bbbb"

          

Or, if you only specify a username (-a username), you’ll be prompted for the password before the request is sent.

To send an empty password, pass username:.

The username:password@hostname URL syntax is supported as well (but credentials passed via -a have higher priority).

Possible values are basic and digest.

The default value is basic so it can often be omitted.