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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2015-10-28 13:17:54 +0100
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2015-10-28 13:17:54 +0100
commit9b87078d556de090a4b3a8db1fd4f962bdd040c3 (patch)
treee8d0fab224b1feec503005471ee0243eb6e035a9 /docs
parent370ee919b37cc9a46c36428b2bb1527eae5db2bd (diff)
curl.1: -E: s/private certificate/client certificate
... as the certificate is strictly speaking not private. Reported-by: John Levon
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diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index edde89d6b..3dab88e5c 100644
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -488,10 +488,10 @@ If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
(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 PKCS#12 format if using Secure Transport, or PEM format if using any other
-engine. 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.
+engine. 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 client 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