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diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 index 237e833ec..dfb35a2e8 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ .\" * $Id$ .\" ************************************************************************** .\" -.TH curl_easy_setopt 3 "25 Jan 2005" "libcurl 7.13.0" "libcurl Manual" +.TH curl_easy_setopt 3 "12 May 2005" "libcurl 7.14.0" "libcurl Manual" .SH NAME curl_easy_setopt - set options for a curl easy handle .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -996,13 +996,22 @@ operations. \fBNOTE:\fP If the crypto device cannot be set, \fICURLE_SSL_ENGINE_SETFAILED\fP is returned. .IP CURLOPT_SSLVERSION -Pass a long as parameter. Set what version of SSL to attempt to use, 2 or -3. By default, the SSL library will try to solve this by itself although some -servers make this difficult why you at times may have to use this option. - - +Pass a long as parameter to control what version of SSL/TLS to attempt to use. +The available options are: +.RS +.IP CURL_SSLVERSION_DEFAULT +The default action. When libcurl built with OpenSSL, this will attempt to +figure out the remote SSL protocol version. Unfortunately there are a lot of +ancient and broken servers in use which cannot handle this technique and will +fail to connect. When libcurl is built with GnuTLS, this will mean SSLv3. +.IP CURL_SSLVERSION_TLSv1 +Force TLSv1 +.IP CURL_SSLVERSION_SSLv2 +Force SSLv2 +.IP CURL_SSLVERSION_SSLv3 +Force SSLv3 +.RE .IP CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER - Pass a long as parameter. This option determines whether curl verifies the authenticity of the |