[curl] How to set the authorization header using curl

How do I pass authorization header using cURL? ( executable in /usr/bin/curl).

Just adding so you don't have to click-through:

curl --user name:password http://www.example.com

or if you're trying to do send authentication for OAuth 2:

curl -H "Authorization: OAuth <ACCESS_TOKEN>" http://www.example.com

For HTTP Basic Auth:

curl -H "Authorization: Basic <_your_token_>" http://www.example.com

replace _your_token_ and the URL.

This worked for me:

 curl -H "Authorization: Token xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" https://www.example.com/

(for those who are looking for php-curl answer)

$service_url = 'https://example.com/something/something.json';
$curl = curl_init($service_url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "username:password"); //Your credentials goes here
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $curl_post_data);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); //IMP if the url has https and you don't want to verify source certificate

$curl_response = curl_exec($curl);
$response = json_decode($curl_response);
curl_close($curl);

var_dump($response);

Be careful that when you using: curl -H "Authorization: token_str" http://www.example.com

token_str and Authorization must be separated by white space, otherwise server-side will not get the HTTP_AUTHORIZATION environment.

If you don't have the token at the time of the call is made, You will have to make two calls, one to get the token and the other to extract the token form the response, pay attention to

grep token | cut -d, -f1 | cut -d\" -f4

as it is the part which is dealing with extracting the token from the response.

echo "Getting token response and extracting token"    
def token = sh (returnStdout: true, script: """
    curl -S -i -k -X POST https://www.example.com/getToken -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -H \"Accept: application/json\" -d @requestFile.json | grep token | cut -d, -f1 | cut -d\\" -f4
""").split()

After extracting the token you can use the token to make subsequent calls as follows.

echo "Token : ${token[-1]}"       
echo "Making calls using token..."       
curl -S -i -k  -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer ${token[-1]}" https://www.example.com/api/resources 

Bearer tokens look like this:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer <ACCESS_TOKEN>" http://www.example.com