On Wed, 13 Nov 2013, frank ernest wrote:

> "--hostpubmd5 <md5> (SCP/SFTP) Pass a string containing 32 hexadecimal
> digits. The string should be the 128 bit MD5 checksum of the remote host's
> public key, curl will refuse the connection with the host unless the md5sums
> match." How can I tell when to use this?

You use it when you want to make sure that you're talking to the correct SSH
server and therefore you insist that the MD5 of the host key matches.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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