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diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index 01b89fb50..10ff68f4a 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -211,7 +211,17 @@ certificate concatenated! If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "--cacert <CA certificate>" (HTTPS) Tells curl to use the specified certificate file to verify the -peer. The certificate must be in PEM format. +peer. The file may contain multiple CA certificates. The certificate(s) must +be in PEM format. + +If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. +.IP "--capath <CA certificate directory>" +(HTTPS) Tells curl to use the specified certificate directory to verify the +peer. The certificates must be in PEM format, and the directory must have been +processed using the c_rehash utility supplied with openssl. Certificate directories +are not supported under Windows (because c_rehash uses symbolink links to +create them). Using --capath can allow curl to make https connections much +more efficiently than using --cacert if the --cacert file contains many CA certificates. If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "-f/--fail" |