Issue
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:
/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?
Solution
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.
Answered By - pizza Answer Checked By - Gilberto Lyons (WPSolving Admin)