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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2020-03-09 14:59:21 +0100
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2020-03-13 16:56:41 +0100
commit0845ecbb6dcaadad4a4891f7e85efb8c8e626ff6 (patch)
treea95c964c1bd37aa267bb96648b5a9cf2ae439766 /docs/libcurl/opts
parentfe8ba51209959c6ff200b4f7c847c7a3fc53ecfa (diff)
docs: add warnings about FILE: URLs on Windows
- --url man page section - libcurl-security.3 gets the full text - CURLOPT_URL.3 Reported-by: Tim Sedlmeyer
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl/opts')
-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_URL.36
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_URL.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_URL.3
index c88a1f12c..a5dcf9167 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_URL.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_URL.3
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
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+.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2020, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
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@@ -152,6 +152,10 @@ path.
ftp://user:password@ftp.example.com//readme.txt - This retrieves the readme.txt
from the root directory when logging in as a specified user.
+.IP FILE
+When a FILE:// URL is accessed on Windows systems, it can be crafted in a way
+so that Windows attempts to connect to a (remote) machine when curl wants to
+read or write such a path.
.IP SMTP
The path part of a SMTP request specifies the host name to present during
communication with the mail server. If the path is omitted then libcurl will