Yes, Basic auth is the default in curl, if you provide credentials off the bat. Use --digest to default to digest auth. If you don't provide credentials, curl

Yes, Basic auth is the default in curl, if you provide credentials off the bat. Use --digest to default to digest auth. If you don't provide credentials, curl will prompt you and do the authentication the server requests (if any). Using --anyauth will also let the server decide. They're probably not going to change that default and break millions of scripts on the next apt-get upgrade.