Prateek, Please notice the https: prefix in the URL. The username/password goes over SSL in encrypted form. Would you still be concerned? Thanks Dilli
From: prateek arora <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 4:05 PM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: do not want to pass username-password in curl command Hi I am using below command to access hadoop service. curl -ik -u guest:guest-password -H "Accept: text/xml" -X GET 'https://192.168.44.11:8443/gateway/sandbox/hbase' i do not want to pass username and password over the network. so is there any mechanism so i can pass some tokens or api-key so i can hide user-name and password . Regards Prateek
