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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2003-02-03 21:36:52 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2003-02-03 21:36:52 +0000
commit21c16f923c0618cf35fdc71921b3544f8ea04eca (patch)
tree00729d97b3c35bd4a1b2b922f0a94bb4c267910d
parent32cef52f0d4f204d8741f30ffd2448d443049c47 (diff)
Julian Noble pointed out that capath is indeed working fine on Windows
these days since the c_rehash tool is written (fixed) to do the proper action even on file systems that don't support symlinks.
-rw-r--r--docs/curl.19
-rw-r--r--src/main.c2
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index 50831ac62..8482fc8af 100644
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -220,11 +220,10 @@ be in PEM format.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "--capath <CA certificate directory>"
(HTTPS) Tells curl to use the specified certificate directory to verify the
-peer. The certificates must be in PEM format, and the directory must have been
-processed using the c_rehash utility supplied with openssl. Certificate directories
-are not supported under Windows (because c_rehash uses symbolink links to
-create them). Using --capath can allow curl to make https connections much
-more efficiently than using --cacert if the --cacert file contains many CA certificates.
+peer. The certificates must be in PEM format, and the directory must have been
+processed using the c_rehash utility supplied with openssl. Using --capath can
+allow curl to make https connections much more efficiently than using --cacert
+if the --cacert file contains many CA certificates.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "-f/--fail"
diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
index 6397e9035..16cde8852 100644
--- a/src/main.c
+++ b/src/main.c
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ static void help(void)
puts(" --engine <eng> Specifies the crypto engine to use (HTTPS)\n"
" --cacert <file> CA certifciate to verify peer against (SSL)\n"
" --capath <directory> CA directory (made using c_rehash) to verify\n"
- " peer against (SSL, NOT Windows)\n"
+ " peer against (SSL)\n"
" --ciphers <list> What SSL ciphers to use (SSL)\n"
" --compressed Request a compressed response (using deflate).");
puts(" --connect-timeout <seconds> Maximum time allowed for connection\n"