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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2011-03-08 11:43:42 +0100
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2011-03-08 11:43:42 +0100
commit0354cd5f77ccec17d49673a5e7365f6b219d30ce (patch)
treebc005e215a5c62e8e9ffeb0d6dea2d6e66b1684e
parent0d0f8084e36f986a8fed4d5b544b12b343001e50 (diff)
curl.1: clarify -E
Stress that it is for client certificates and then mention that it also works for all other SSL-based protocols apart from HTTPS and FTPS. Namely POP3S, IMAPS and SMTPS for now.
-rw-r--r--docs/curl.112
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index 465aff4d7..481448325 100644
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -351,12 +351,12 @@ run curl.
is used to seed the random engine for SSL connections. See also the
\fI--random-file\fP option.
.IP "-E/--cert <certificate[:password]>"
-(SSL) Tells curl to use the specified certificate file when getting a file
-with HTTPS or FTPS. The certificate must be in PEM format. If the optional
-password isn't specified, it will be queried for on the terminal. Note that
-this option assumes a \&"certificate" file that is the private key and the
-private certificate concatenated! See \fI--cert\fP and \fI--key\fP to specify
-them independently.
+(SSL) Tells curl to use the specified client certificate file when getting a
+file with HTTPS, FTPS or another SSL-based protocol. The certificate must be
+in PEM format. If the optional password isn't specified, it will be queried
+for on the terminal. Note that this option assumes a \&"certificate" file that
+is the private key and the private certificate concatenated! See \fI--cert\fP
+and \fI--key\fP to specify them independently.
If curl is built against the NSS SSL library then this option can tell
curl the nickname of the certificate to use within the NSS database defined