Re: curl mutually exclusive --ntlm and --negotiate option

On Mon, 28 Jul 2025, jicea via curl-users wrote:

> I've a simple questions regarding --ntlm and --negotiate option. In the 
> manual for ntlm, it is written that "--ntlm requires that libcurl is built 
> to support TLS.  This option is mutually exclusive with --basic, 
> --negotiate, --digest and --anyauth.  See also --proxy-ntlm."

That is wrong. Those options are not mutually exclusive, they actually 
enable/disable those specific authentication methods.

I'm fixing that mistake here: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/18059

> - Are --ntlm and --negotiate exclusive? if yes, what's the choosen one if 
> both options are provided?

Using --ntlm and --negotiate means either of those authentication methods are 
fine to use.

> - mutual exclusive options like negotiate and ntlm seems to be accepted

Yeah, the docs is wrong, sorry!

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