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| author | Michael Kaufmann <mail@michael-kaufmann.ch> | 2017-09-24 19:58:37 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kaufmann <mail@michael-kaufmann.ch> | 2017-09-28 21:29:39 +0200 |
| commit | 46d63bbbe87685b2e9c7380585c03afaa1fcf157 (patch) | |
| tree | d7a4516c7f55963ed1ac75926609eb2e94b2d577 /docs/libcurl/opts | |
| parent | eac324f28420871b79790c8f2c3a3ec9bd0b9e00 (diff) | |
docs: clarify the use of environment variables for proxy
Closes #1921
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl/opts')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_NOPROXY.3 | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_PROXY.3 | 3 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_NOPROXY.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_NOPROXY.3 index a1ee476f6..61500fc05 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_NOPROXY.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_NOPROXY.3 @@ -41,8 +41,13 @@ If the name in the noproxy list has a leading period, it is a domain match against the provided host name. This way ".example.com" will switch off proxy use for both "www.example.com" as well as for "foo.example.com". +Setting the noproxy string to "" (an empty string) will explicitly enable the +proxy for all host names, even if there is an environment variable set for it. + The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this option. +.SH "Environment variables" +See \fICURLOPT_PROXY(3)\fP .SH DEFAULT NULL .SH PROTOCOLS diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_PROXY.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_PROXY.3 index c543c2c5d..8e93309f1 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_PROXY.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_PROXY.3 @@ -84,7 +84,8 @@ names to not use a proxy for (even if one of the previous mention variables are set). That is the exact equivalent of setting the \fICURLOPT_NOPROXY(3)\fP option. -The \fICURLOPT_PROXY(3)\fP option overrides environment variables. +The \fICURLOPT_PROXY(3)\fP and \fICURLOPT_NOPROXY(3)\fP options override +environment variables. .SH DEFAULT Default is NULL, meaning no proxy is used. |