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-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH.34
-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_XOAUTH2_BEARER.38
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH.3
index 09a9f996a..7bb45506e 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH.3
@@ -56,6 +56,10 @@ defined in RFC2617 and is a more secure way to do authentication over public
networks than the regular old-fashioned Basic method. The IE flavor is simply
that libcurl will use a special "quirk" that IE is known to have used before
version 7 and that some servers require the client to use.
+.IP CURLAUTH_BEARER
+HTTP Bearer token authentication, used primarily in OAuth 2.0 protocol.
+
+You can set the Bearer token to use with \fICURLOPT_XOAUTH2_BEARER(3)\fP.
.IP CURLAUTH_NEGOTIATE
HTTP Negotiate (SPNEGO) authentication. Negotiate authentication is defined
in RFC 4559 and is the most secure way to perform authentication over HTTP.
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_XOAUTH2_BEARER.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_XOAUTH2_BEARER.3
index 262c63764..8f86ae9ee 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_XOAUTH2_BEARER.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_XOAUTH2_BEARER.3
@@ -29,11 +29,11 @@ CURLOPT_XOAUTH2_BEARER \- specify OAuth 2.0 access token
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_XOAUTH2_BEARER, char *token);
.SH DESCRIPTION
Pass a char * as parameter, which should point to the zero terminated OAuth
-2.0 Bearer Access Token for use with IMAP, POP3 and SMTP servers that support
-the OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework.
+2.0 Bearer Access Token for use with HTTP, IMAP, POP3 and SMTP servers
+that support the OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework.
-Note: The user name used to generate the Bearer Token should be supplied via
-the \fICURLOPT_USERNAME(3)\fP option.
+Note: For IMAP, POP3 and SMTP, the user name used to generate the Bearer Token
+should be supplied via the \fICURLOPT_USERNAME(3)\fP option.
The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this
option.