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

One way, provide --user flag as part of curl, as follows:

curl --user username:password http://example.com

Another way is to get Base64 encoded token of "username:password" from any online website like - https://www.base64encode.org/ and pass it as Authorization header of curl as follows:

curl -i -H 'Authorization:Basic dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ=' http://localhost:8080/

Here, dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ= is Base64 encoded token of username:password.