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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2020-03-09 14:59:21 +0100 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2020-03-13 16:56:41 +0100 |
| commit | 0845ecbb6dcaadad4a4891f7e85efb8c8e626ff6 (patch) | |
| tree | a95c964c1bd37aa267bb96648b5a9cf2ae439766 /docs/libcurl/opts | |
| parent | fe8ba51209959c6ff200b4f7c847c7a3fc53ecfa (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.3 | 6 |
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 @@ .\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ .\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| .\" * -.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2019, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. +.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2020, 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 @@ -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 |