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| author | Anthony Bryan <anthonybryan@gmail.com> | 2012-09-09 23:08:59 +0200 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2012-09-09 23:08:59 +0200 |
| commit | fa4b4d2033bd79bcc40e754b19ca50849e2e0e69 (patch) | |
| tree | aeb4206e1e239c1bf3bcd97acaee3918dd7d9111 | |
| parent | a492632022622db8d9ff45d02032d5e53dea11e2 (diff) | |
MANUAL: clarified user+password in HTTP URLs
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/MANUAL | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/MANUAL b/docs/MANUAL index 6dbfd24b5..4ad2e135e 100644 --- a/docs/MANUAL +++ b/docs/MANUAL @@ -113,9 +113,10 @@ USING PASSWORDS ones out of the ones that the server accepts for the given URL, by using --anyauth. - NOTE! Since HTTP URLs don't support user and password, you can't use that - style when using Curl via a proxy. You _must_ use the -u style fetch - during such circumstances. + NOTE! According to the URL specification, HTTP URLs can not contain a user + and password, so that style will not work when using curl via a proxy, even + though curl allows it at other times. When using a proxy, you _must_ use + the -u style for user and password. HTTPS |