Hi If it is a basic authentication, you can try http://userid:password@mywebservice.com:8080/status/agent/test not sure it works try first a direct from command line : curl "http://userid:password@mywebservice.com:8080/status/agent/test" Gilbert From: freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of JP Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:50 AM To: FreeSWITCH Users Help Subject: [Freeswitch-users] Passing credentials when invoking "curl" 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