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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2015-05-21 14:17:17 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2015-05-21 14:17:17 +0200
commitee04c20b743377b988ded7784d90368b9797dd8b (patch)
tree24d5c1cda3f994f0b045796ccbd93fb7ad5eff93 /docs
parent126e7f7253988012fdafa3f052214c7fb7805eb0 (diff)
CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL.3: only works with a HTTP proxy!
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-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL.37
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL.3
index 3cbf50e2d..f861afbde 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL.3
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
.\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
.\" *
-.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2014, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2015, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
.\" *
.\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
.\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ Tunneling essentially means that a CONNECT is sent to the proxy, asking it to
connect to a remote host on a specific port number and then the traffic is
just passed through the proxy. Proxies tend to whitelist specific port numbers
it allows CONNECT requests to and often only port 80 and 443 are allowed.
+
+When using this, it only makes sense to use \fICURLOPT_PROXYTYPE(3)\fP set to
+a HTTP proxy.
.SH DEFAULT
0
.SH PROTOCOLS
@@ -48,4 +51,4 @@ Always
.SH RETURN VALUE
Returns CURLE_OK
.SH "SEE ALSO"
-.BR CURLOPT_PROXY "(3), "
+.BR CURLOPT_PROXY "(3), " CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE "(3), " CURLOPT_PROXYPORT "(3), "