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-.TH CURLOPT_USERNAME 3 "19 Jun 2014" "libcurl 7.37.0" "curl_easy_setopt options"
+.TH CURLOPT_USERNAME 3 "May 05, 2017" "libcurl 7.59.0" "curl_easy_setopt options"
+
.SH NAME
CURLOPT_USERNAME \- user name to use in authentication
.SH SYNOPSIS
To specify the password and login options, along with the user name, use the
\fICURLOPT_PASSWORD(3)\fP and \fICURLOPT_LOGIN_OPTIONS(3)\fP options.
+
+The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this
+option.
.SH DEFAULT
blank
.SH PROTOCOLS
Most
.SH EXAMPLE
-TODO
+.nf
+CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
+if(curl) {
+ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com/foo.bin");
+
+ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_USERNAME, "clark");
+
+ ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);
+
+ curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
+}
+.fi
.SH AVAILABILITY
Added in 7.19.1
.SH RETURN VALUE