Had to download a bunch of stuff over the command-line from an IIS server that was using authentication. Not basic authentication, but NTLM authentication.
wget kept failing, even wget 1.10 that usually does NTLM quite OK (but up to 1.10.2 has a security vulnerability so you should not use wget 1.10 any more).
So I installed a Windows x86 cURL binary, and downloaded+copied the root certificates, then did some reading on the command-line switches.
Without any, cURL does http basic authentication. But a Windows server usually expects NTLM authentication (hardly documented, but it uses the Negotiate protocol).
When not using NTLM, both would show (wget -d, or curl -v) this in the output, indicating you should use NTLM authentication: Read the rest of this entry »
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