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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2015-04-23 15:58:21 +0200 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2015-04-28 21:02:37 +0200 |
| commit | 6ba2e88a642434bd0ffa95465e4a7d034d03ea10 (patch) | |
| tree | 82958caeabc8de706f5d3ffd0811e5c13e9e1c07 /docs | |
| parent | 1f8a337e41b436bd763ebe57702ce03996359952 (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')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HEADEROPT.3 | 12 |
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 |