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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2015-05-12 23:47:01 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2015-05-12 23:47:01 +0200
commita6af3df660ce88ae52659151f876cf3ea6ddf53f (patch)
treea473760fa6196ac58a4df75ef7490dcf5fc0eb59
parent2a746f6c28a926b2fd6f6db7fcff50c7bdc68fa6 (diff)
CURLMOPT_MAX_HOST_CONNECTIONS: host = host name + port number
-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/opts/CURLMOPT_MAX_HOST_CONNECTIONS.310
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLMOPT_MAX_HOST_CONNECTIONS.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLMOPT_MAX_HOST_CONNECTIONS.3
index 778934737..7522d4375 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLMOPT_MAX_HOST_CONNECTIONS.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLMOPT_MAX_HOST_CONNECTIONS.3
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
.\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
.\" *
-.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2014, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2015, 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
@@ -29,8 +29,9 @@ CURLMOPT_MAX_HOST_CONNECTIONS \- set max number of connections to a single host
CURLMcode curl_multi_setopt(CURLM *handle, CURLMOPT_MAX_HOST_CONNECTIONS, long max);
.SH DESCRIPTION
Pass a long to indicate \fBmax\fP. The set number will be used as the maximum
-amount of simultaneously open connections to a single host. For each new
-session to a host, libcurl will open a new connection up to the limit set by
+amount of simultaneously open connections to a single host (a host being the
+same as a host name + port number pair). For each new session to a host,
+libcurl will open a new connection up to the limit set by
\fICURLMOPT_MAX_HOST_CONNECTIONS(3)\fP. When the limit is reached, the
sessions will be pending until a connection becomes available. If
\fICURLMOPT_PIPELINING(3)\fP is enabled, libcurl will try to pipeline if the
@@ -40,6 +41,9 @@ The default \fBmax\fP value is 0, unlimited. However, for backwards
compatibility, setting it to 0 when \fICURLMOPT_PIPELINING(3)\fP is 1 will not
be treated as unlimited. Instead it will open only 1 connection and try to
pipeline on it.
+
+This set limit is also used for proxy connections, and then the proxy is
+considered to be the host for which this limit counts.
.SH DEFAULT
0
.SH PROTOCOLS