Does LibCurl provide some functionality to produce tokens or hash/salt a string and shared secret? My c++ program will upload files to the server and my server script will authenticate that the HTTP post is coming from my c++ application and not someone else. So I'll send a auth token or hash in the query string that the server script can compare with its own to authenticate the request.
I've seen that you can authenticate using curl --user name:password http://www.example.com but can't a user just read the binary executable and see the username and password?
Although, maybe I am reinventing the wheel with my auth approach. Does LibCurl or another c++ provide the ability to perform shared-secret authentication?
