How to define the basic HTTP authentication using cURL correctly

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I m learning Apigility  Apigility docu -  REST Service Tutorial  and trying to send a POST request with basic authentication via cURL     curl -X POST -i -H  Content-Type  application hal json  -H  Authorization  Basic YXBpdXNlcjphcGlwd2Q   http   apigilityhw sandbox loc status   YXBpdXNlcjphcGlwd2Q  is the base 64 encoded string with my credentials apiuser apipwd  The credentials are saved in the  data htpasswd  apiuser  apr1 3J4cyqEw WKga3rQMkxvnevMuBaekg     The looks like this   HTTP 1 1 401 Unauthorized Server  nginx 1 4 7 Date  Mon  22 Sep 2014 07 48 47 GMT Content-Type  application problem json Transfer-Encoding  chunked Connection  keep-alive X-Powered-By  PHP 5 5 12-1 dotdeb 1 WWW-Authenticate  Basic realm  api    Where is the mistake here  How to get it work

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curl -u username password http    curl -u username http      From the documentation page      -u  --user  lt user password gt       Specify the user name and password to use for server authentication    Overrides -n  --netrc and --netrc-optional       If you simply specify the user name  curl will prompt for a password       The user name and passwords are split up on the first colon  which   makes it impossible to use a colon in the user name with this option    The password can  still       When using Kerberos V5 with a Windows based server you should include   the Windows domain name in the user name  in order for the server to   succesfully obtain a Kerberos Ticket  If you don t then the initial   authentication handshake may fail       When using NTLM  the user name can be specified simply as the user   name  without the domain  if there is a single domain and forest in   your setup for example       To specify the domain name use either Down-Level Logon Name or UPN    User Principal Name  formats  For example  EXAMPLE user and   user example com respectively       If you use a Windows SSPI-enabled curl binary and perform Kerberos V5    Negotiate  NTLM or Digest authentication then you can tell curl to   select the user name and password from your environment by specifying   a single colon with this option   -u          If this option is used several times  the last one will be used    http   curl haxx se docs manpage html -u  Note that you do not need --basic flag as it is the default

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as header  AUTH   echo -ne   BASIC AUTH USER  BASIC AUTH PASSWORD    base64 --wrap 0   curl     --header  Content-Type  application json      --header  Authorization  Basic  AUTH      --request POST     --data     key1   value1    key2   value2        https   example com

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