> My question is > whether setting a username/password (even blank) can lead to > authentication failure if none is required (particularly in the > context of proxies).
My guess is most server will not care. Nevertheless, by setting the user name and password you kinda force libcurl to send the Authorization header. If your server doesn't like it, you'll have a problem. Apache seems to ignore it unless configured to use basic auth. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: https://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
