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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 | 18 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 index 3297f8391..fd58b14c5 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 @@ -640,17 +640,23 @@ http://192.168.0.1/ http://[2001:1890:1112:1::20]/ -It is also possible to specify the user name and password as part of the -host, for some protocols, when connecting to servers that require -authentication. - -For example the following types of authentication support this: +It is also possible to specify the user name, password and any supported login +options as part of the host, for the following protocols, when connecting to +servers that require authentication: http://user:password@www.example.com ftp://user:password@ftp.example.com -pop3://user:password@mail.example.com +imap://user:password;options@mail.example.com + +pop3://user:password;options@mail.example.com + +smtp://user:password;options@mail.example.com + +At present only IMAP, POP3 and SMTP support login options as part of the host. +For more information about the login options in URL syntax please see RFC2384 +and RFC5092 (Added in 7.30.1). The port is optional and when not specified libcurl will use the default port based on the determined or specified protocol: 80 for HTTP, 21 for FTP and 25 |