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You can read up on SSL cipher list details at. ( SSL) Specifies which ciphers to use in the connection. This is the default and this option is usually pointless, unless you use it to override a previously set option that sets a different authentication method (such as -ntlm, -digest and -negotiate). ( HTTP) Tells curl to use HTTP Basic authentication. If this option is used twice, the second one disables ASCII usage. This option causes data sent to stdout to be in text mode for win32 systems. For FTP, this can also be enforced using an URL that ends with ' Type=A'. If this option is set more than once, the last occurrence will be the option that's used. To store cookies, use the -c/ -cookie-jar option, or you can save the HTTP headers to a file using -D/ -dump-header. NOTE: the file specified with -b/ -cookie is only used as input. The file format of the file to read cookies from should be plain HTTP headers or the Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format. Using this method also activates the 'cookie parser' which makes curl record incoming cookies too, which may be handy if you're using this in combination with the -location option. If no ' =' (equals) character is used in the line, it is treated as a file name to use to read previously stored cookie lines from, which should be used in this session if they match. The data should be in the format ' NAME1=VALUE1 NAME2=VALUE2'.

It is expected to be the data previously received from the server in a ' Set-Cookie:' line. ( HTTP) Pass the data to the HTTP server as a cookie. If the need should arise when uploading from stdin, the upload operation fails.

Note that using -anyauth is not recommended if you do uploads from stdin since it may require data to be sent twice and then the client must be able to rewind. This is used instead of setting a specific authentication method, which you can do with -basic, -digest, -ntlm, and -negotiate. This is done by first making a request and checking the response-headers, thus possibly inducing a network round-trip. ( HTTP) Tells curl to figure out authentication method by itself, and use the most secure method the remote site claims it supports. If this option is set more than once, the last one will be the one that's used. This value can also be set with the -H/ -header option. To encode blanks in the string, surround the string with single quote marks. Some CGI fail if the agent string is not set to ' Mozilla/4.0'.

( HTTP) Specify the User-Agent string to send to the HTTP server. Note that this option is ignored by some SSH servers, including OpenSSH. If the file doesn't exist, it is created. ( FTP/ SFTP) When used in an FTP upload, this will tell curl to append to the target file instead of overwriting it.

Curl works but when assigned to variable in script it hands