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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/libcurl-security.3 b/docs/libcurl/libcurl-security.3
index 0cfdddea8..cdb97915c 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/libcurl-security.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/libcurl-security.3
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
.\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
.\" *
-.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2018, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2019, 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
@@ -97,8 +97,8 @@ Never ever switch off certificate verification.
The \fICURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION(3)\fP option automatically follows HTTP
redirects sent by a remote server. These redirects can refer to any kind of
URL, not just HTTP. libcurl restricts the protocols allowed to be used in
-redirects for security reasons: FILE, SCP, SMB and SMBS are disabled by
-default. Applications are encouraged to restrict that set further.
+redirects for security reasons: only HTTP, HTTPS and FTP are enabled by
+default. Applications may opt to restrict thus set further.
A redirect to a file: URL would cause the libcurl to read (or write) arbitrary
files from the local filesystem. If the application returns the data back to