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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2011-09-18 23:42:29 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2011-09-18 23:42:29 +0200
commit00532341b568653e78bc676feedf225fe7c2948f (patch)
treedd2e46ea104117174e04297d1fff80d5f601c20e /docs/libcurl
parentdae0b7d1aaccbc9ed91fdc228ddc3cbeb0a7f5f5 (diff)
CURLOPT_URL docs: no need to mention function names
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-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.317
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index bdc0e9707..9f6f11d89 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -672,24 +672,23 @@ directory underneath the root directory then the absolute path must be
specified by using an additional forward slash to the beginning of the path.
ftp://user:password@my.site.com//readme.txt - This retrieves the readme.txt
-from the root directory when logging in as a specified user.
+from the root directory when logging in as a specified user.
.B 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
-perform a call to \fCurl_gethostname\fP to resolve the local computer's
-host name. However, \fCurl_gethostname\fP does not return the fully qualified
-domain name that is required by some mail servers and specifing this path
-allows you to specify an alternative nane such as your machine's fully
-qualified domain name which you might have obtained from an external function
-such as gethostname or getaddrinfo.
+attempt to to resolve the local computer's host name. However, that will not
+return the fully qualified domain name that is required by some mail servers
+and specifing this path allows you to specify an alternative name such as your
+machine's fully qualified domain name which you might have obtained from an
+external function such as gethostname or getaddrinfo.
smtp://mail.domain.com - This connects to the mail server at domain.com and
sends your local computer's host name in the HELO / EHLO command.
-smtp://mail.domain.com/client.domain.com - This will send client.domain.com
-in the HELO / EHLO command to the mail server at domain.com.
+smtp://mail.domain.com/client.domain.com - This will send client.domain.com in
+the HELO / EHLO command to the mail server at domain.com.
.B NOTES