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authorDan Fandrich <dan@coneharvesters.com>2014-03-13 04:48:38 +0100
committerDan Fandrich <dan@coneharvesters.com>2014-03-14 23:38:00 +0100
commitca7d1de69c73a6c19a1a5b7ee33a0b12c5e06d6a (patch)
tree1be4ec3ec6ad520bbc120eda0f7362ee1e377714 /docs
parent61591eee68b4820442feeacfb7670fd091b441b1 (diff)
docs: fixed a bunch of typos
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r--docs/DISTRO-DILEMMA8
-rw-r--r--docs/FEATURES6
-rw-r--r--docs/INSTALL.cmake2
-rw-r--r--docs/INTERNALS2
-rw-r--r--docs/KNOWN_BUGS10
-rw-r--r--docs/LIBCURL-STRUCTS10
-rw-r--r--docs/MAIL-ETIQUETTE2
-rw-r--r--docs/README.netware2
-rw-r--r--docs/SECURITY4
-rw-r--r--docs/SSL-PROBLEMS6
-rw-r--r--docs/SSLCERTS2
-rw-r--r--docs/TheArtOfHttpScripting6
-rw-r--r--docs/curl.112
13 files changed, 36 insertions, 36 deletions
diff --git a/docs/DISTRO-DILEMMA b/docs/DISTRO-DILEMMA
index 108e6bad1..71186a268 100644
--- a/docs/DISTRO-DILEMMA
+++ b/docs/DISTRO-DILEMMA
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ GnuTLS
OpenSSL does. Now, you can build and distribute an TLS/SSL capable libcurl
without including any Original BSD licensed code.
- I believe Debian is the first (only?) distro that provides libcurl/GnutTLS
+ I believe Debian is the first (only?) distro that provides libcurl/GnuTLS
packages.
yassl
@@ -72,20 +72,20 @@ GnuTLS vs OpenSSL vs yassl
While these three libraries offer similar features, they are not equal.
libcurl does not (yet) offer a standardized stable ABI if you decide to
- switch from using libcurl-openssl to libcurl-gnutls or vice versa. The GnuTLS
+ switch from using libcurl-openssl to libcurl-gnutls or vice-versa. The GnuTLS
and yassl support is very recent in libcurl and it has not been tested nor
used very extensively, while the OpenSSL equivalent code has been used and
thus matured since 1999.
GnuTLS
- - LGPL licensened
+ - LGPL licensed
- supports SRP
- lacks SSLv2 support
- lacks MD2 support (used by at least some CA certs)
- lacks the crypto functions libcurl uses for NTLM
OpenSSL
- - Original BSD licensened
+ - Original BSD licensed
- lacks SRP
- supports SSLv2
- older and more widely used
diff --git a/docs/FEATURES b/docs/FEATURES
index 0221ce35e..806286405 100644
--- a/docs/FEATURES
+++ b/docs/FEATURES
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ HTTP
- reads/writes the netscape cookie file format
- custom headers (replace/remove internally generated headers)
- custom user-agent string
- - custom referer string
+ - custom referrer string
- range
- proxy authentication
- time conditions
@@ -161,8 +161,8 @@ IMAP
- SASL based authentication: Plain, Login, CRAM-MD5, Digest-MD5 and
NTLM (*9)
- list the folders of a mailbox
- - select a mailbox with support for verifing the UIDVALIDITY
- - fetch e-mails with support for specifing the UID and SECTION
+ - select a mailbox with support for verifying the UIDVALIDITY
+ - fetch e-mails with support for specifying the UID and SECTION
- upload e-mails via the append command
- enhanced command support for: EXAMINE, CREATE, DELETE, RENAME, STATUS,
STORE, COPY and UID via custom requests
diff --git a/docs/INSTALL.cmake b/docs/INSTALL.cmake
index 125c130f3..f5d32d898 100644
--- a/docs/INSTALL.cmake
+++ b/docs/INSTALL.cmake
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ Command Line CMake
$ make install
- (The teste suit does not work with the cmake build)
+ (The test suite does not work with the cmake build)
ccmake
=========
diff --git a/docs/INTERNALS b/docs/INTERNALS
index a4afe0687..8c6feae54 100644
--- a/docs/INTERNALS
+++ b/docs/INTERNALS
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ Persistent Connections
o When libcurl is told to perform a transfer, it first checks for an already
existing connection in the cache that we can use. Otherwise it creates a
new one and adds that the cache. If the cache is full already when a new
- conncetion is added added, it will first close the oldest unused one.
+ connection is added added, it will first close the oldest unused one.
o When the transfer operation is complete, the connection is left
open. Particular options may tell libcurl not to, and protocols may signal
closure on connections and then they won't be kept open of course.
diff --git a/docs/KNOWN_BUGS b/docs/KNOWN_BUGS
index d167ab34b..ad997a0c6 100644
--- a/docs/KNOWN_BUGS
+++ b/docs/KNOWN_BUGS
@@ -6,13 +6,13 @@ may have been fixed since this was written!
87. -J/--remote-header-name doesn't decode %-encoded file names. RFC6266
details how it should be done. The can of worm is basically that we have no
charset handling in curl and ascii >=128 is a challenge for us. Not to
- mention that decoding also means that we need to check for nastyness that is
+ mention that decoding also means that we need to check for nastiness that is
attempted, like "../" sequences and the like. Probably everything to the left
of any embedded slashes should be cut off.
http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1294
86. The disconnect commands (LOGOUT and QUIT) may not be sent by IMAP, POP3
- and SMTP if a failure occures during the authentication phase of a
+ and SMTP if a failure occurs during the authentication phase of a
connection.
85. Wrong STARTTRANSFER timer accounting for POST requests
@@ -38,9 +38,9 @@ may have been fixed since this was written!
such in the build.
http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1222
-81. When using -J (with -O), automaticly resumed downloading together with "-C
- -" fails. Without -J the same command line works! This happens because the
- resume logic is worked out before the target file name (and thus its
+81. When using -J (with -O), automatically resumed downloading together with
+ "-C -" fails. Without -J the same command line works! This happens because
+ the resume logic is worked out before the target file name (and thus its
pre-transfer size) has been figured out!
http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1169
diff --git a/docs/LIBCURL-STRUCTS b/docs/LIBCURL-STRUCTS
index 20f2d3410..136d17ce7 100644
--- a/docs/LIBCURL-STRUCTS
+++ b/docs/LIBCURL-STRUCTS
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ for older and later versions as things don't change drastically that often.
->mstate is the multi state of this particular SessionHandle. When
multi_runsingle() is called, it will act on this handle according to which
state it is in. The mstate is also what tells which sockets to return for a
- speicific SessionHandle when curl_multi_fdset() is called etc.
+ specific SessionHandle when curl_multi_fdset() is called etc.
The libcurl source code generally use the name 'data' for the variable that
points to the SessionHandle.
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ for older and later versions as things don't change drastically that often.
re-use an existing one instead of creating a new as it creates a significant
performance boost.
- Each 'connectdata' identifies a single physical conncetion to a server. If
+ Each 'connectdata' identifies a single physical connection to a server. If
the connection can't be kept alive, the connection will be closed after use
and then this struct can be removed from the cache and freed.
@@ -158,18 +158,18 @@ for older and later versions as things don't change drastically that often.
->do_it is the function called to issue the transfer request. What we call
the DO action internally. If the DO is not enough and things need to be kept
- getting done for the entier DO sequence to complete, ->doing is then usually
+ getting done for the entire DO sequence to complete, ->doing is then usually
also provided. Each protocol that needs to do multiple commands or similar
for do/doing need to implement their own state machines (see SCP, SFTP,
FTP). Some protocols (only FTP and only due to historical reasons) has a
separate piece of the DO state called DO_MORE.
- ->doing keeps getting called while issudeing the transfer request command(s)
+ ->doing keeps getting called while issuing the transfer request command(s)
->done gets called when the transfer is complete and DONE. That's after the
main data has been transferred.
- ->do_more gets called doring the DO_MORE state. The FTP protocol uses this
+ ->do_more gets called during the DO_MORE state. The FTP protocol uses this
state when setting up the second connection.
->proto_getsock
diff --git a/docs/MAIL-ETIQUETTE b/docs/MAIL-ETIQUETTE
index ae1821a89..ea46986df 100644
--- a/docs/MAIL-ETIQUETTE
+++ b/docs/MAIL-ETIQUETTE
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ MAIL ETIQUETTE
No matter what, we NEVER EVER respond to trolls or spammers on the list. If
you believe the list admin should do something particular, contact him/her
off-list. The subject will be taken care of as good as possible to prevent
- repeated offences, but responding on the list to such messages never lead to
+ repeated offenses, but responding on the list to such messages never lead to
anything good and only puts the light even more on the offender: which was
the entire purpose of it getting to the list in the first place.
diff --git a/docs/README.netware b/docs/README.netware
index 41da2e8dc..12065f305 100644
--- a/docs/README.netware
+++ b/docs/README.netware
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ README.netware
Curl has been successfully compiled with gcc / nlmconv on different flavours
of Linux as well as with the official Metrowerks CodeWarrior compiler.
- While not being the main development target, a continously growing share of
+ While not being the main development target, a continuously growing share of
curl users are NetWare-based, specially also consuming the lib from PHP.
The unix-style man pages are tricky to read on windows, so therefore are all
diff --git a/docs/SECURITY b/docs/SECURITY
index 01c9668ed..c850f2702 100644
--- a/docs/SECURITY
+++ b/docs/SECURITY
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ announcement.
- Write a security advisory draft about the problem that explains what the
problem is, its impact, which versions it affects, solutions or
- work-arounds, when the release is out and make sure to credit all
+ workarounds, when the release is out and make sure to credit all
contributors properly.
- Request a CVE number from distros@openwall.org[1] when also informing and
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ announcement.
the same manner we always announce releases. It gets sent to the
curl-announce, curl-library and curl-users mailing lists.
-- The security web page on the web site should get the new vulernability
+- The security web page on the web site should get the new vulnerability
mentioned.
[1] = http://oss-security.openwall.org/wiki/mailing-lists/distros
diff --git a/docs/SSL-PROBLEMS b/docs/SSL-PROBLEMS
index bbee8adcc..7ee4d14ee 100644
--- a/docs/SSL-PROBLEMS
+++ b/docs/SSL-PROBLEMS
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
SSL problems
- First, let's establish that we often refer to TLS and SSL interchangably as
+ First, let's establish that we often refer to TLS and SSL interchangeably as
SSL here. The current protocol is called TLS, it was called SSL a long time
ago.
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ SSL version
Some broken servers fail to support the protocol negotiation properly that
SSL servers are supposed to handle. This may cause the connection to fail
- completely. Sometimes you may need to explicity select a SSL version to use
+ completely. Sometimes you may need to explicitly select a SSL version to use
when connecting to make the connection succeed.
An additional complication can be that modern SSL libraries sometimes are
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ SSL version
SSL ciphers
- Clients give servers a list of ciphers to select from. If the list doens't
+ Clients give servers a list of ciphers to select from. If the list doesn't
include any ciphers the server wants/can use, the connection handshake
fails.
diff --git a/docs/SSLCERTS b/docs/SSLCERTS
index e6b05c3e3..14a039126 100644
--- a/docs/SSLCERTS
+++ b/docs/SSLCERTS
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ Starting with version 7.19.7, libcurl will check for the NSS version it runs,
and automatically add the 'sql:' prefix to the certdb directory (either the
hardcoded default /etc/pki/nssdb or the directory configured with SSL_DIR
environment variable) if version 3.12.0 or later is detected. To check which
-ertdb format your distribution provides, examine the default
+certdb format your distribution provides, examine the default
certdb location: /etc/pki/nssdb; the new certdb format can be identified by
the filenames cert9.db, key4.db, pkcs11.txt; filenames of older versions are
cert8.db, key3.db, modsec.db.
diff --git a/docs/TheArtOfHttpScripting b/docs/TheArtOfHttpScripting
index 27462a577..7235f12f9 100644
--- a/docs/TheArtOfHttpScripting
+++ b/docs/TheArtOfHttpScripting
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ The Art Of Scripting HTTP Requests Using Curl
2.4 User name and password
Some services are setup to require HTTP authentication and then you need to
- provide name and password which then is transfered to the remote site in
+ provide name and password which then is transferred to the remote site in
various ways depending on the exact authentication protocol used.
You can opt to either insert the user and password in the URL or you can
@@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ The Art Of Scripting HTTP Requests Using Curl
Curl has a full blown cookie parsing engine built-in that comes to use if you
want to reconnect to a server and use cookies that were stored from a
- previous connection (or handicrafted manually to fool the server into
+ previous connection (or hand-crafted manually to fool the server into
believing you had a previous connection). To use previously stored cookies,
you run curl like:
@@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ The Art Of Scripting HTTP Requests Using Curl
sometimes they use such code to set or modify cookie contents. Possibly they
do that to prevent programmed logins, like this manual describes how to...
Anyway, if reading the code isn't enough to let you repeat the behavior
- manually, capturing the HTTP requests done by your browers and analyzing the
+ manually, capturing the HTTP requests done by your browsers and analyzing the
sent cookies is usually a working method to work out how to shortcut the
javascript need.
diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index 82431bde0..929e86c1f 100644
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -141,13 +141,13 @@ underlying libcurl was built to support it. (Added in 7.33.0)
.IP "--no-npn"
Disable the NPN TLS extension. NPN is enabled by default if libcurl was built
with an SSL library that supports NPN. NPN is used by a libcurl that supports
-HTTP 2 to negoatiate HTTP 2 support with the server during https sessions.
+HTTP 2 to negotiate HTTP 2 support with the server during https sessions.
(Added in 7.36.0)
.IP "--no-alpn"
Disable the ALPN TLS extension. ALPN is enabled by default if libcurl was built
with an SSL library that supports ALPN. ALPN is used by a libcurl that supports
-HTTP 2 to negoatiate HTTP 2 support with the server during https sessions.
+HTTP 2 to negotiate HTTP 2 support with the server during https sessions.
(Added in 7.36.0)
.IP "-1, --tlsv1"
@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ This option requires that libcurl was built with a resolver backend that
supports this operation. The c-ares backend is the only such one. (Added in
7.33.0)
.IP "-e, --referer <URL>"
-(HTTP) Sends the "Referer Page" information to the HTTP server. This can also
+(HTTP) Sends the "Referrer Page" information to the HTTP server. This can also
be set with the \fI-H, --header\fP flag of course. When used with
\fI-L, --location\fP you can append ";auto" to the --referer URL to make curl
automatically set the previous URL when it follows a Location: header. The
@@ -1424,7 +1424,7 @@ option name can still be used but will be removed in a future version.
.IP "--ssl-allow-beast"
(SSL) This option tells curl to not work around a security flaw in the SSL3
and TLS1.0 protocols known as BEAST. If this option isn't used, the SSL layer
-may use work-arounds known to cause interoperability problems with some older
+may use workarounds known to cause interoperability problems with some older
SSL implementations. WARNING: this option loosens the SSL security, and by
using this flag you ask for exactly that. (Added in 7.25.0)
.IP "--socks4 <host[:port]>"
@@ -1601,7 +1601,7 @@ will prompt for a password.
If you use an SSPI-enabled curl binary and perform NTLM authentication, you
can force curl to select the user name and password from your environment by
-simply specifying a single colon with this option: "-u :" or by specfying the
+simply specifying a single colon with this option: "-u :" or by specifying the
login options on their own, for example "-u ;auth=NTLM".
You can use the optional login options part to specify protocol specific
@@ -1823,7 +1823,7 @@ Specifies a custom POP3 command to use instead of LIST or RETR. (Added in
7.26.0)
(IMAP)
-Specifies a custom IMAP command to use insead of LIST. (Added in 7.30.0)
+Specifies a custom IMAP command to use instead of LIST. (Added in 7.30.0)
(SMTP)
Specifies a custom SMTP command to use instead of HELP or VRFY. (Added in 7.34.0)