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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2015-02-08 00:05:55 +0100 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2015-02-08 00:05:55 +0100 |
| commit | 499024d2085c56edd2fd4b46d8b5b5e140616fc0 (patch) | |
| tree | 30d211952787957d32dcf45e21646dc47b651400 | |
| parent | 761d5166aff64c877a72fff48a5f754dfa1ab4e0 (diff) | |
curl.1: add warning when using -H and redirects
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/curl.1 | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index af5d5f348..8b2d3f8cc 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -743,6 +743,12 @@ Example: \&# curl -H "X-First-Name: Joe" http://192.168.0.1/ +\fBWARNING\fP: headers set with this option will be set in all requests - even +after redirects are followed, like when told with \fB-L, --location\fP. This +can lead to the header being sent to other hosts than the original host, so +sensitive headers should be used with caution combined with following +redirects. + This option can be used multiple times to add/replace/remove multiple headers. .IP "--hostpubmd5 <md5>" (SCP/SFTP) Pass a string containing 32 hexadecimal digits. The string should |