curl-library
[PATCH] docs: improve description of the --capath option
From: Alessandro Ghedini <al3xbio_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:04:57 +0100
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:04:57 +0100
Document the possibility of providing multiple values using the ":"
separator, and the fact that the default value will be ignored if the
option is used.
--- docs/curl.1 | 16 +++++++++------- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index 052b1dd..661532b 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -434,13 +434,15 @@ may be loaded. If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "--capath <CA certificate directory>" (SSL) Tells curl to use the specified certificate directory to verify the -peer. The certificates must be in PEM format, and if curl is built against -OpenSSL, the directory must have been processed using the c_rehash utility -supplied with OpenSSL. Using \fI--capath\fP can allow OpenSSL-powered curl to -make SSL-connections much more efficiently than using \fI--cacert\fP if the -\fI--cacert\fP file contains many CA certificates. - -If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. +peer. Multiple paths can be provided by separating them with ":" (e.g. +"path1:path2:path3"). The certificates must be in PEM format, and if curl +is built against OpenSSL, the directory must have been processed using the +c_rehash utility supplied with OpenSSL. Using \fI--capath\fP can allow +OpenSSL-powered curl to make SSL-connections much more efficiently than +using \fI--cacert\fP if the \fI--cacert\fP file contains many CA certificates. + +If this option is set, the default capath value will be ignored, and if it +is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "-f, --fail" (HTTP) Fail silently (no output at all) on server errors. This is mostly done to better enable scripts etc to better deal with failed attempts. In -- 1.7.7.3 --YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html --YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4--Received on 2001-09-17