CURLOPT_PROXY.3: describe the environment variables more

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_PROXY.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_PROXY.3
index 3398170b0..02de8f4b9 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_PROXY.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_PROXY.3
@@ -65,10 +65,6 @@ an impact on what other features of the library you can use, such as
 tunnel through the HTTP proxy. Such tunneling is activated with
 \fICURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL(3)\fP.
 
-libcurl respects the environment variables \fBhttp_proxy\fP, \fBftp_proxy\fP,
-\fBall_proxy\fP etc, if any of those are set. The \fICURLOPT_PROXY(3)\fP
-option does however override any possibly set environment variables.
-
 Setting the proxy string to "" (an empty string) will explicitly disable the
 use of a proxy, even if there is an environment variable set for it.
 
@@ -77,6 +73,18 @@ user + password.
 
 The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this
 option.
+.SH "Environment variables"
+libcurl respects the proxy environment variables named \fBhttp_proxy\fP,
+\fBftp_proxy\fP, \fBsftp_proxy\fP etc. If set, libcurl will use the specified
+proxy for that URL scheme. So for a "FTP://" URL, the \fBftp_proxy\fP is
+considered. \fBall_proxy\fP is used if no protocol specific proxy was set.
+
+If \fBno_proxy\fP (or \fBNO_PROXY\fP) is set, it can specify a list of host
+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 \fBCURLOPT_NOPROXY(3)\fP
+option.
+
+The \fICURLOPT_PROXY(3)\fP option overrides environment variables.
 .SH DEFAULT
 Default is NULL, meaning no proxy is used.