That's true, but it's no better there, either.

Here's some sample curl client code in PHP.

      $c = curl_init("https://someurl/some/api");
      $msg = /* some data here */
      $opts = array(
        CURLOPT_POST=>TRUE,
        CURLOPT_USERPWD=>"<password string>",
        CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER=>array("Content-type: application/json"),
        CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS=>$msg,
        CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER=>FALSE,
        CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER=>TRUE
      );
      curl_setopt_array($c, $opts);
      $d = curl_exec($c);
      curl_close($c);

Every option in that ugly argument array corresponds directly to a commandline option.