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diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index 59a277d0d..9c4c6afa0 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -445,7 +445,8 @@ Set HTTP proxy to use. The parameter should be a char * to a zero terminated
string holding the host name or dotted IP address. To specify port number in
this string, append :[port] to the end of the host name. The proxy string may
be prefixed with [protocol]:// since any such prefix will be ignored. The
-proxy's port number may optionally be specified with the separate option
+proxy's port number may optionally be specified with the separate option. If
+not specified, libcurl will default to using port 1080 for proxies.
\fICURLOPT_PROXYPORT\fP.
When you tell the library to use an HTTP proxy, libcurl will transparently