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diff --git a/docs/TheArtOfHttpScripting b/docs/TheArtOfHttpScripting index 01ece3c54..3368a8d77 100644 --- a/docs/TheArtOfHttpScripting +++ b/docs/TheArtOfHttpScripting @@ -1,7 +1,5 @@ Online: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/httpscripting.shtml -Author: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> -Date: November 6, 2001 -Version: 0.6 +Date: December 7, 2004 The Art Of Scripting HTTP Requests Using Curl ============================================= @@ -229,25 +227,25 @@ Version: 0.6 curl -U proxyuser:proxypassword curl.haxx.se If your proxy requires the authentication to be done using the NTLM method, - use --proxy-ntlm. + use --proxy-ntlm, if it requires Digest use --proxy-digest. If you use any one these user+password options but leave out the password part, curl will prompt for the password interactively. - Do note that when a program is run, its parameters are possible to see when - listing the running processes of the system. Thus, other users may be able to - watch your passwords if you pass them as plain command line options. There - are ways to circumvent this. + Do note that when a program is run, its parameters might be possible to see + when listing the running processes of the system. Thus, other users may be + able to watch your passwords if you pass them as plain command line + options. There are ways to circumvent this. 7. REFERER - A HTTP request may include a 'referer' field, which can be used to tell from - which URL the client got to this particular resource. Some programs/scripts - check the referer field of requests to verify that this wasn't arriving from - an external site or an unknown page. While this is a stupid way to check - something so easily forged, many scripts still do it. Using curl, you can put - anything you want in the referer-field and thus more easily be able to fool - the server into serving your request. + A HTTP request may include a 'referer' field (yes it is misspelled), which + can be used to tell from which URL the client got to this particular + resource. Some programs/scripts check the referer field of requests to verify + that this wasn't arriving from an external site or an unknown page. While + this is a stupid way to check something so easily forged, many scripts still + do it. Using curl, you can put anything you want in the referer-field and + thus more easily be able to fool the server into serving your request. Use curl to set the referer field with: @@ -379,9 +377,15 @@ Version: 0.6 curl -E mycert.pem https://that.secure.server.com curl also tries to verify that the server is who it claims to be, by - verifying the server's certificate against a CA cert bundle. Failing the - verification will cause curl to deny the connection. You must then use -k in - case you want to tell curl to ignore that the server can't be verified. + verifying the server's certificate against a locally stored CA cert + bundle. Failing the verification will cause curl to deny the connection. You + must then use -k in case you want to tell curl to ignore that the server + can't be verified. + + More about server certificate verification and ca cert bundles can be read + in the SSLCERTS document, available online here: + + http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html 12. REFERENCES |