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authorGunter Knauf <gk@gknw.de>2008-02-19 23:10:07 +0000
committerGunter Knauf <gk@gknw.de>2008-02-19 23:10:07 +0000
commitf9a60620818b6a19ebe3e6f15e1b57d7012e6fb0 (patch)
treec2bc254dd996004ffef3b7af8eb66b36d1010bf1 /docs/libcurl
parent0cae2010440de8757a3a15792892d52d8e158bd6 (diff)
applied patch to disable SSLv2 by default; discussion:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1767276&group_id=976&atid=350976 Submitted by Kaspar Brand.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl')
-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.37
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index dec4371e1..0da9d20bf 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -1379,10 +1379,9 @@ Pass a long as parameter to control what version of SSL/TLS to attempt to use.
The available options are:
.RS
.IP CURL_SSLVERSION_DEFAULT
-The default action. When libcurl built with OpenSSL or NSS, this will attempt
-to figure out the remote SSL protocol version. Unfortunately there are a lot of
-ancient and broken servers in use which cannot handle this technique and will
-fail to connect. When libcurl is built with GnuTLS, this will mean SSLv3.
+The default action. This will attempt to figure out the remote SSL protocol
+version, i.e. either SSLv3 or TLSv1 (but not SSLv2, which became disabled
+by default with 7.18.1).
.IP CURL_SSLVERSION_TLSv1
Force TLSv1
.IP CURL_SSLVERSION_SSLv2