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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2011-03-08 11:43:42 +0100 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2011-03-08 11:43:42 +0100 |
| commit | 0354cd5f77ccec17d49673a5e7365f6b219d30ce (patch) | |
| tree | bc005e215a5c62e8e9ffeb0d6dea2d6e66b1684e /docs | |
| parent | 0d0f8084e36f986a8fed4d5b544b12b343001e50 (diff) | |
curl.1: clarify -E
Stress that it is for client certificates and then mention that it also
works for all other SSL-based protocols apart from HTTPS and
FTPS. Namely POP3S, IMAPS and SMTPS for now.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/curl.1 | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index 465aff4d7..481448325 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -351,12 +351,12 @@ run curl. is used to seed the random engine for SSL connections. See also the \fI--random-file\fP option. .IP "-E/--cert <certificate[:password]>" -(SSL) Tells curl to use the specified certificate file when getting a file -with HTTPS or FTPS. The certificate must be in PEM format. If the optional -password isn't specified, it will be queried for on the terminal. Note that -this option assumes a \&"certificate" file that is the private key and the -private certificate concatenated! See \fI--cert\fP and \fI--key\fP to specify -them independently. +(SSL) Tells curl to use the specified client certificate file when getting a +file with HTTPS, FTPS or another SSL-based protocol. The certificate must be +in PEM format. If the optional password isn't specified, it will be queried +for on the terminal. Note that this option assumes a \&"certificate" file that +is the private key and the private certificate concatenated! See \fI--cert\fP +and \fI--key\fP to specify them independently. If curl is built against the NSS SSL library then this option can tell curl the nickname of the certificate to use within the NSS database defined |