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

How do I set up the basic authorization?

All you need to do is use -u, --user USER[:PASSWORD]. Behind the scenes curl builds the Authorization header with base64 encoded credentials for you.

Example:

curl -u username:password -i -H 'Accept:application/json' http://example.com