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 :/