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authorKamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com>2011-01-18 13:53:43 +0100
committerKamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com>2011-01-18 14:30:49 +0100
commitfc77790bcd451f32a0f60a5e4073b2be54fb40e9 (patch)
treea2461db29be19f5323e75fc2388f02768fbfb749 /docs/curl.1
parentef46fcdd908a7e8b0835ea63bd22d9c4e8f374a5 (diff)
nss: fix a bug in handling of CURLOPT_CAPATH
... and update the curl.1 and curl_easy_setopt.3 man pages such that they do not suggest to use an OpenSSL utility if curl is not built against OpenSSL. Bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/669702
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@@ -394,11 +394,11 @@ may be loaded.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "--capath <CA certificate directory>"
(SSL) 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. Using
-\fI--capath\fP can allow curl to make SSL-connections much more efficiently
-than using \fI--cacert\fP if the \fI--cacert\fP file contains many CA
-certificates.
+peer. The certificates must be in PEM format, and if curl is built against
+OpenSSL, the directory must have been processed using the c_rehash utility
+supplied with OpenSSL. Using \fI--capath\fP can allow OpenSSL-powered curl to
+make SSL-connections much more efficiently than using \fI--cacert\fP if the
+\fI--cacert\fP file contains many CA certificates.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "-f/--fail"