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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2008-10-16 20:21:22 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2008-10-16 20:21:22 +0000 |
| commit | a9a4300a367a4beeef0674240e6721d68f1b1ae3 (patch) | |
| tree | 9d00fc2acae45e420f322395e4f4e22df6e24138 /docs | |
| parent | f720e0ac0f1c9db0bbfbfe441a9983427ebb2429 (diff) | |
- Igor Novoseltsev added CURLOPT_PROXYUSER and CURLOPT_PROXYPASSWORD that then
make CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD sort of deprecated. The primary motive for adding
these new options is that they have no problems with the colon separator
that the CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD option does.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/KNOWN_BUGS | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 | 20 |
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/KNOWN_BUGS b/docs/KNOWN_BUGS index dcc693cb9..e9ecd5103 100644 --- a/docs/KNOWN_BUGS +++ b/docs/KNOWN_BUGS @@ -160,11 +160,6 @@ may have been fixed since this was written! doesn't do a HEAD first to get the initial size. This needs to be done manually for HTTP PUT resume to work, and then '-C [index]'. -7. CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD has no way of providing user names that contain a - colon. This can't be fixed easily in a backwards compatible way without - adding new options. CURLOPT_USERPWD was split into CURLOPT_USERNAME and - CURLOPT_PASSWORD for this reason. - 6. libcurl ignores empty path parts in FTP URLs, whereas RFC1738 states that such parts should be sent to the server as 'CWD ' (without an argument). The only exception to this rule, is that we knowingly break this if the diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 index cface443c..9759e8fcc 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 @@ -620,6 +620,26 @@ password to use for the transfer. The CURLOPT_PASSWORD option should be used in conjunction with as the \fICURLOPT_USERNAME\fP option. (Added in 7.19.1) +.IP CURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME
+Pass a char * as parameter, which should be pointing to the zero terminated
+user name to use for the transfer while connecting to Proxy.
+
+The CURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME option should be used in same way as the
+\fICURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD\fP is used. In comparison to \fICURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD\fP
+the CURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME allows the username to contain colon,
+like in following example: "sip:user@example.com".
+Note the CURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME option is an alternative way to set the user name
+while connecting to Proxy. There is no meaning to use it together
+with the \fICURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD\fP option.
+
+In order to specify the password to be used in conjunction with the user name
+use the \fICURLOPT_PROXYPASSWORD\fP option. (Added in 7.19.1)
+.IP CURLOPT_PROXYPASSWORD
+Pass a char * as parameter, which should be pointing to the zero terminated
+password to use for the transfer while connecting to Proxy.
+
+The CURLOPT_PROXYPASSWORD option should be used in conjunction with
+as the \fICURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME\fP option. (Added in 7.19.1)
.IP CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH Pass a long as parameter, which is set to a bitmask, to tell libcurl what authentication method(s) you want it to use. The available bits are listed |