I am trying to use curl from a lua script to get data from a webservice and need to pass user/password information. Can someone help me with this? Here is what I am doing, which does not seem to work.

api = freeswitch.API()
agent_status_url = "-u userid:password http://mywebservice.com:8080/status/agent/test"
response = api:execute("curl", agent_status_url)
freeswitch.consoleLog("INFO", response)

Thanks