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Asked: 2026-06-07T11:52:30+00:00

Having a problem with CURL and the HTTP User and password Auth methods, it

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Having a problem with CURL and the HTTP User and password Auth methods, it is not liking the exclamation mark, I’ve tried escaping the following ways:

Tried and failed…

/usr/bin/curl -u 'UserName\WithSlash:PasswordWithExclamation!' https://test.com/
/usr/bin/curl -u UserName\\WithSlash:PasswordWithExclamation\! https://test.com/

Not working for basic or digest if it matters (using –anyauth) … getting 401 denied…

What am I doing incorrectly?

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     curl -u UserName\\WithSlash:PasswordWithExclamation\!  http://....

    works fine.

    it sends

     GET / HTTP/1.1
 Authorization: Basic VXNlck5hbWVcV2l0aFNsYXNoOlBhc3N3b3JkV2l0aEV4Y2xhbWF0aW9uIQ==
 User-Agent: curl/7.21.0
 Host: teststuff1.com:80
 Accept: */*

    which is “UserName\WithSlash:PasswordWithExclamation!” in the auth string.

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