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Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_URL.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_URL.3 | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_URL.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_URL.3 index 6e4824a9f..83d41c10b 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_URL.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_URL.3 @@ -40,9 +40,11 @@ libcurl doesn't validate the syntax or use this variable until the transfer is issued. Even if you set a crazy value here, \fIcurl_easy_setopt(3)\fP will still return \fICURLE_OK\fP. -If the given URL lacks the scheme (such as "http://" or "ftp://" etc) then -libcurl will attempt to resolve the protocol based on one of the following -given host names: HTTP, FTP, DICT, LDAP, IMAP, POP3 or SMTP +If the given URL is missing a scheme name (such as "http://" or "ftp://" etc) +then libcurl will make a guess based on the host. If the outermost sub-domain +name matches DICT, FTP, IMAP, LDAP, POP3 or SMTP then that protocol will be +used, otherwise HTTP will be used. Since 7.45.0 guessing can be disabled by +setting a default protocol, see \fICURLOPT_DEFAULT_PROTOCOL(3)\fP for details. Should the protocol, either that specified by the scheme or deduced by libcurl from the host name, not be supported by libcurl then |