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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2003-03-31 04:04:40 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2003-03-31 04:04:40 +0000 |
| commit | 9a075f53dc0179e516b59f0039d135b0d39f7b2e (patch) | |
| tree | b46fc38976a20aa13b733287df50f96550ac6498 /docs | |
| parent | 4b3f800c030948525b72422413980d4538126e74 (diff) | |
clarify USERPWD somewhat more
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 index 3f8ef88a5..a1bb2c6df 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 @@ -315,8 +315,16 @@ user. .TP .B CURLOPT_USERPWD Pass a char * as parameter, which should be [user name]:[password] to use for -the connection. If the password is left out, you will be prompted for it. -\fICURLOPT_PASSWDFUNCTION\fP can be used to set your own prompt function. +the connection. If both the colon and password is left out, you will be +prompted for it while using a colon with no password will make libcurl use an +empty password. \fICURLOPT_PASSWDFUNCTION\fP can be used to set your own +prompt function. + +When using HTTP and CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, libcurl might perform several +requests to possibly different hosts. libcurl will only send this user and +password information to hosts using the initial host name, so if libcurl +follows locations to other hosts it will not send the user and password to +those. This is enforced to prevent accidental information leakage. .TP .B CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD Pass a char * as parameter, which should be [user name]:[password] to use for |