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authorJay Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com>2019-09-25 19:12:27 -0400
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2019-09-28 18:13:33 +0200
commit00b65e3779ec083f1eb5e52f83da615e99182a72 (patch)
tree4dc4287b9ed1c9f6e6c4c7f1b3054c3b1f238f55 /docs/libcurl/curl_url_get.3
parentd0a7ee3f613b0c3f2370c6cc81e5aafef67120f0 (diff)
docs: disambiguate CURLUPART_HOST is for host name (ie no port)
Closes #4424
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl/curl_url_get.3')
-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/curl_url_get.35
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_url_get.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_url_get.3
index d5445e3c8..6afa5735d 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_url_get.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_url_get.3
@@ -76,8 +76,9 @@ Scheme cannot be URL decoded on get.
.IP CURLUPART_PASSWORD
.IP CURLUPART_OPTIONS
.IP CURLUPART_HOST
-If the host part is an IPv6 numeric address, the zoneid will not be part of
-the extracted host but is provided separately in \fICURLUPART_ZONEID\fP.
+The host name. If it is an IPv6 numeric address, the zoneid will not be part
+of it but is provided separately in \fICURLUPART_ZONEID\fP. IPv6 numerical
+addresses are returned within brackets ([]).
.IP CURLUPART_ZONEID
If the host name is a numeric IPv6 address, this field might also be set.
.IP CURLUPART_PORT