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Kladskull
Kladskull

Reputation: 10762

Curl - Exclamation mark in User Auth/Password

Having a problem with CURL and the HTTP User and password Auth methods, it is not liking the exclamation mark, I've tried escaping the following ways:

Tried and failed...

/usr/bin/curl -u 'UserName\WithSlash:PasswordWithExclamation!' https://test.com/
/usr/bin/curl -u UserName\\WithSlash:PasswordWithExclamation\! https://test.com/

Not working for basic or digest if it matters (using --anyauth) ... getting 401 denied...

What am I doing incorrectly?

Upvotes: 47

Views: 61600

Answers (3)

Martin
Martin

Reputation: 2981

If you know the server supports Basic auth, you could set the header directly:

curl --header "Authorization: Basic $(base64 --wrap=0 credentials)" https://example.org

This way you can store the user and password (UserName\WithSlash:PasswordWithExclamation!) without any escaping in the credentials file you pass to the base64 command.

Upvotes: 0

Shen Yong
Shen Yong

Reputation: 21

not that complicated, just use "". at least it works on Linux.

for example:

curl -u "username:passwdwithspecialchar" GET https://....

Upvotes: 2

pizza
pizza

Reputation: 7640

 curl -u UserName\\WithSlash:PasswordWithExclamation\!  http://....

works fine.

it sends

 GET / HTTP/1.1
 Authorization: Basic VXNlck5hbWVcV2l0aFNsYXNoOlBhc3N3b3JkV2l0aEV4Y2xhbWF0aW9uIQ==
 User-Agent: curl/7.21.0
 Host: teststuff1.com:80
 Accept: */*

which is "UserName\WithSlash:PasswordWithExclamation!" in the auth string.

Upvotes: 53

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