On Tue, 16 Sep 2025, Bastian Jesuiter via curl-users wrote:
The netrc file only seems to support basic auth, Would it be possible (for
curl) to parse the "password" field as "Bearer" token, either implicitly or
explicitly (by adding the bearer at the beginning of the password field),
when the login field is missing?
Alternatively are there RFCs for the dotnetrc file where the parsing rules
are defined? Or is this more of a silent agreement for the format?
.netrc is a legacy file format tracing back to the late 1970s. It was never
properly documented or defined but has been used by different tools in mostly
compatible ways through the decades ever since.
Adding or changing things to this format risk breaking how the file is
interpreted by other tools.
Of course, it is also conceptually possible to add things that just works with
curl if we really want to.
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