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-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.320
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/KNOWN_BUGS b/docs/KNOWN_BUGS
index dcc693cb9..e9ecd5103 100644
--- a/docs/KNOWN_BUGS
+++ b/docs/KNOWN_BUGS
@@ -160,11 +160,6 @@ may have been fixed since this was written!
doesn't do a HEAD first to get the initial size. This needs to be done
manually for HTTP PUT resume to work, and then '-C [index]'.
-7. CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD has no way of providing user names that contain a
- colon. This can't be fixed easily in a backwards compatible way without
- adding new options. CURLOPT_USERPWD was split into CURLOPT_USERNAME and
- CURLOPT_PASSWORD for this reason.
-
6. libcurl ignores empty path parts in FTP URLs, whereas RFC1738 states that
such parts should be sent to the server as 'CWD ' (without an argument).
The only exception to this rule, is that we knowingly break this if the
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index cface443c..9759e8fcc 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -620,6 +620,26 @@ password to use for the transfer.
The CURLOPT_PASSWORD option should be used in conjunction with
as the \fICURLOPT_USERNAME\fP option. (Added in 7.19.1)
+.IP CURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME
+Pass a char * as parameter, which should be pointing to the zero terminated
+user name to use for the transfer while connecting to Proxy.
+
+The CURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME option should be used in same way as the
+\fICURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD\fP is used. In comparison to \fICURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD\fP
+the CURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME allows the username to contain colon,
+like in following example: "sip:user@example.com".
+Note the CURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME option is an alternative way to set the user name
+while connecting to Proxy. There is no meaning to use it together
+with the \fICURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD\fP option.
+
+In order to specify the password to be used in conjunction with the user name
+use the \fICURLOPT_PROXYPASSWORD\fP option. (Added in 7.19.1)
+.IP CURLOPT_PROXYPASSWORD
+Pass a char * as parameter, which should be pointing to the zero terminated
+password to use for the transfer while connecting to Proxy.
+
+The CURLOPT_PROXYPASSWORD option should be used in conjunction with
+as the \fICURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME\fP option. (Added in 7.19.1)
.IP CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH
Pass a long as parameter, which is set to a bitmask, to tell libcurl what
authentication method(s) you want it to use. The available bits are listed