curl-w32/docs/cmdline-opts/basic.md

c	SPDX-License-Identifier	Long	Help	Protocols	Category	Added	Multi	See-also	Example
Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.	curl	basic	Use HTTP Basic Authentication	HTTP	auth	7.10.6	mutex	proxy-basic	-u name:password --basic $URL

--basic

Tells curl to use HTTP Basic authentication with the remote host. This is the default and this option is usually pointless, unless you use it to override a previously set option that sets a different authentication method (such as --ntlm, --digest, or --negotiate).

Used together with --user.