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

curl -D- -X GET -H "Authorization: Basic ZnJlZDpmcmVk" -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://localhost:7990/rest/api/1.0/projects

--note

base46 encode =ZnJlZDpmcmVk