Quickpost: curl And SSPI Proxy Authentication

curl with SSPI feature supports integrated authentication to a proxy: you don’t need to provide credentials.

The command is the following:

curl –proxy proxyname:8080 –proxy-ntlm -U : https://www.didierstevens.com/index.html

This curl command uses a proxy (–proxy) and authenticates to the proxy (–proxy-ntlm) without providing explicit credentials (-U :).

curl will use an SSPI to perform integrated authentication to the proxy. This is explained on curl’s man page:

If you use a Windows SSPI-enabled curl binary and do either Negotiate or NTLM 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 :”.

curl’s SSPI feature can also be used to authenticate to an internal IIS server.

Windows’ build-in curl version supports SSPI. You can use the version option to check if your version of curl supports SSPI:

 

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