On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Robert Archer wrote:

> curl-7.15.4\curl.exe -U "myusername:mypassword" -d "@c:\test.xml" -H
> "Content-Type: text/xml" -v -H "SOAPAction: myURL" myURL

> Basically I've been supplied a username and password to use the service.

Yes, -U is for *proxy* authentication. For host authentication you use
(lowercase) -u.

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