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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2006-04-09 22:40:49 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2006-04-09 22:40:49 +0000
commit260b88c197645a3d2548c2938ff8097bdd69fb88 (patch)
treea8e7cdb92548868834e9ff9e3f4d36a480d5f565
parent655331a91b2d68106c0afb63c1bdf6245a6cc30c (diff)
mention RFC 2396 for URL syntax spec
-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.35
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index 14eee0cff..18718efb0 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -295,7 +295,10 @@ given protocol of the set URL is not supported, libcurl will return on error
\fIcurl_multi_perform(3)\fP. Use \fIcurl_version_info(3)\fP for detailed info
on which protocols that are supported.
-\fICURLOPT_URL\fP is the only option that must be set before
+The string given to CURLOPT_URL must be url-encoded and following the RFC 2396
+(http://curl.haxx.se/rfc/rfc2396.txt).
+
+\fICURLOPT_URL\fP is the only option that \fBmust\fP be set before
\fIcurl_easy_perform(3)\fP is called.
.IP CURLOPT_PROXY
Set HTTP proxy to use. The parameter should be a char * to a zero terminated