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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2009-04-18 22:48:28 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2009-04-18 22:48:28 +0000
commit991b120eeebeb9a9b092272273066a27956d744e (patch)
tree1f96efca41826c3606c62f26e629cc36c5bd1403 /docs
parentf278d177f98860c82f0b7219d3842e5dbbe2f42c (diff)
escape the ' properly
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diff --git a/docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.3 b/docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.3
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@@ -667,14 +667,14 @@ default to assume a HTTP proxy):
.IP "Environment Variables"
-libcurl automatically checks and uses a set of environment variables to
-know what proxies to use for certain protocols. The names of the variables
-are following an ancient de facto standard and are built up as
-"[protocol]_proxy" (note the lower casing). Which makes the variable
-'http_proxy' checked for a name of a proxy to use when the input URL is
-HTTP. Following the same rule, the variable named 'ftp_proxy' is checked
-for FTP URLs. Again, the proxies are always HTTP proxies, the different
-names of the variables simply allows different HTTP proxies to be used.
+libcurl automatically checks and uses a set of environment variables to know
+what proxies to use for certain protocols. The names of the variables are
+following an ancient de facto standard and are built up as "[protocol]_proxy"
+(note the lower casing). Which makes the variable \&'http_proxy' checked for a
+name of a proxy to use when the input URL is HTTP. Following the same rule,
+the variable named 'ftp_proxy' is checked for FTP URLs. Again, the proxies are
+always HTTP proxies, the different names of the variables simply allows
+different HTTP proxies to be used.
The proxy environment variable contents should be in the format
\&"[protocol://][user:password@]machine[:port]". Where the protocol:// part is