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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2013-10-12 23:26:38 +0200 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2013-10-12 23:26:38 +0200 |
| commit | 5df04bfafd13b641786892de95bd5c1f87059f1d (patch) | |
| tree | 19d6b2d96d41548ee5b2b0b1184c4889644978de /docs | |
| parent | d015f4ccac627852869cb45e31ccdc9fbd97dc47 (diff) | |
curl: rename --bearer to --oauth2-bearer
The option '--bearer' might be slightly ambiguous in name. It doesn't
create any conflict that I am aware of at the moment, however, OAUTH v2
is not the only authentication mechanism which uses "bearer" tokens.
Reported-by: Kyle L. Huff
URL: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2013-10/0064.html
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/curl.1 | 16 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index b90cc89e8..30ef4ccf6 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -173,14 +173,6 @@ Note that using --anyauth is not recommended if you do uploads from stdin, since it may require data to be sent twice and then the client must be able to rewind. If the need should arise when uploading from stdin, the upload operation will fail. -.IP "--bearer" -(IMAP/POP3/SMTP) Specify the Bearer Token for OAUTH 2.0 server authentication. -The Bearer Token is used in conjuction with the user name which can be -specified as part of the \fI--url\fP or \fI-u, --user\fP options. - -The Bearer Token and user name are formatted according to RFC 6750. - -If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "-b, --cookie <name=data>" (HTTP) Pass the data to the HTTP server as a cookie. It is supposedly the @@ -1062,6 +1054,14 @@ you want the file saved in a different directory, make sure you change current working directory before you invoke curl with the \fB-O, --remote-name\fP flag! You may use this option as many times as the number of URLs you have. +.IP "--oauth2-bearer" +(IMAP/POP3/SMTP) Specify the Bearer Token for OAUTH 2.0 server authentication. +The Bearer Token is used in conjuction with the user name which can be +specified as part of the \fI--url\fP or \fI-u, --user\fP options. + +The Bearer Token and user name are formatted according to RFC 6750. + +If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "-p, --proxytunnel" When an HTTP proxy is used (\fI-x, --proxy\fP), this option will cause non-HTTP protocols to attempt to tunnel through the proxy instead of merely using it to |