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Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_URL.3')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_URL.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_URL.3 index c88a1f12c..a5dcf9167 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_URL.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_URL.3 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ .\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ .\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| .\" * -.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2019, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. +.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2020, 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 @@ -152,6 +152,10 @@ path. ftp://user:password@ftp.example.com//readme.txt - This retrieves the readme.txt from the root directory when logging in as a specified user. +.IP FILE +When a FILE:// URL is accessed on Windows systems, it can be crafted in a way +so that Windows attempts to connect to a (remote) machine when curl wants to +read or write such a path. .IP SMTP The path part of a SMTP request specifies the host name to present during communication with the mail server. If the path is omitted then libcurl will |