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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2015-04-23 15:58:21 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2015-04-28 21:02:37 +0200
commit6ba2e88a642434bd0ffa95465e4a7d034d03ea10 (patch)
tree82958caeabc8de706f5d3ffd0811e5c13e9e1c07 /docs/libcurl
parent1f8a337e41b436bd763ebe57702ce03996359952 (diff)
CURLOPT_HEADEROPT: default to separate
Make the HTTP headers separated by default for improved security and reduced risk for information leakage. Bug: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20150429.html Reported-by: Yehezkel Horowitz, Oren Souroujon
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl')
-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HEADEROPT.312
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HEADEROPT.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HEADEROPT.3
index be96d7d88..7776b921a 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HEADEROPT.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HEADEROPT.3
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
.\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
.\" *
-.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2014, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2015, 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
@@ -31,10 +31,10 @@ CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_HEADEROPT, long bitmask);
Pass a long that is a bitmask of options of how to deal with headers. The two
mutually exclusive options are:
-\fBCURLHEADER_UNIFIED\fP - keep working as before. This means
-\fICURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3)\fP headers will be used in requests both to servers
-and proxies. With this option enabled, \fICURLOPT_PROXYHEADER(3)\fP will not
-have any effect.
+\fBCURLHEADER_UNIFIED\fP - the headers specified in
+\fICURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3)\fP will be used in requests both to servers and
+proxies. With this option enabled, \fICURLOPT_PROXYHEADER(3)\fP will not have
+any effect.
\fBCURLHEADER_SEPARATE\fP - makes \fICURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3)\fP headers only get
sent to a server and not to a proxy. Proxy headers must be set with
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ headers. When doing CONNECT, libcurl will send \fICURLOPT_PROXYHEADER(3)\fP
headers only to the proxy and then \fICURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3)\fP headers only to
the server.
.SH DEFAULT
-CURLHEADER_UNIFIED
+CURLHEADER_SEPARATE (changed in 7.42.1, ased CURLHEADER_UNIFIED before then)
.SH PROTOCOLS
HTTP
.SH EXAMPLE