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c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
Long: socks5-gssapi
Help: Enable GSS-API auth for SOCKS5 proxies
Added: 7.55.0
Category: proxy auth
Multi: boolean
See-also:
  - socks5
Example:
  - --socks5-gssapi --socks5 hostname:4096 $URL
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# `--socks5-gssapi`

Tells curl to use GSS-API authentication when connecting to a SOCKS5 proxy.
The GSS-API authentication is enabled by default (if curl is compiled with
GSS-API support). Use --socks5-basic to force username/password authentication
to SOCKS5 proxies.