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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2017-05-30 22:43:34 +0200 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2017-05-30 22:43:34 +0200 |
| commit | 2d5fa35e85c6e0ba84e6922e321bbe3a4511cdf9 (patch) | |
| tree | f40300714e74e3b19d5297047250f7a26c9ab76e | |
| parent | dd97551746dca747c2e624ca81cadb6985199826 (diff) | |
docs: clarify NO_PROXY further
Fixes #1208
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/MANUAL | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_NOPROXY.3 | 6 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/MANUAL b/docs/MANUAL index 330f99aea..0e3db0ffb 100644 --- a/docs/MANUAL +++ b/docs/MANUAL @@ -866,8 +866,11 @@ ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES If the host name matches one of these strings, or the host is within the domain of one of these strings, transactions with that node will not be - proxied. - + proxied. When a domain is used, it needs to start with a period. A user can + specify that both www.example.com and foo.example.com should not uses a + proxy by setting NO_PROXY to ".example.com". By including the full name you + can exclude specific host names, so to make www.example.com not use a proxy + but still have foo.example.com do it, set NO_PROXY to "www.example.com" The usage of the -x/--proxy flag overrides the environment variables. diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_NOPROXY.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_NOPROXY.3 index 1048b55a3..a969dc5c2 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_NOPROXY.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_NOPROXY.3 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ .\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ .\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| .\" * -.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2014, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. +.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2017, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. .\" * .\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which .\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms @@ -37,6 +37,10 @@ hostname itself. For example, example.com would match example.com, example.com:80, and www.example.com, but not www.notanexample.com or example.com.othertld. +If the name in the noproxy list has a leading period, it is a domain match +against the provided host name. This way ".example.com" will switch off proxy +use for both "www.example.com" as well as for "foo.example.com". + The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this option. .SH DEFAULT |