basic authorization command for curl

Question

How do I set up the basic authorization using 64 encoded credentials ? I tried below the two commands but of no use , please suggest.

curl -i -H \'Accept:applic         


        

Answer 1

Use the -H header again before the Authorization:Basic things. So it will be

curl -i \
    -H 'Accept:application/json' \
    -H 'Authorization:Basic BASE64_string' \
    http://example.com

Here, BASE64_string = Base64 of username:password