CURL request with ~/.netrc file doesn't work

Question

I am trying to delete some of my post from http://ix.io

I have a file test.txt and ~/.netrc with this content:

$ cat test.txt Hello World! $ cat ~/.netrc machine my_ip_addr login my_username password my_passwd 

I post it with:

$ curl --netrc -F 'f:1=@./test.txt' ix.io http://ix.io/3LCu # This link actually works 

Now lets delete the post with this:

$ curl -n -X DELETE ix.io/3LCu user required # This does not work. 

And the link still works! I want to delete it, what am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Solved. I just know that my_username should be replaced by my linux login username, and my_password should be replaced by my linux login password. Previously I make some different username and password.
So here's the content of the file:

$ cat ~/.netrc machine ix.io login my_linux_login_name password my_linux_login_password 

And now, the CURL deletion request worked.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.

EDIT: Now I think that it has to do with a comment, so previously the password format is something like password #passwd, maybe the #passwd is considered a comment because of the pound sign, so I get some error message like this:

$ curl -n [request] cant add user username: no token 

After changing the password so it doesn't contain pound sign, now the curl request worked. My bad :/