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@@ -361,9 +361,10 @@ DER and ENG are recognized types. If not specified, PEM is assumed.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "--cacert <CA certificate>"
-(SSL) Tells curl to use the specified certificate file to verify the
-peer. The file may contain multiple CA certificates. The certificate(s) must
-be in PEM format.
+(SSL) Tells curl to use the specified certificate file to verify the peer. The
+file may contain multiple CA certificates. The certificate(s) must be in PEM
+format. Normally curl is built to use a default file for this, so this option
+is typically used to alter that default file.
curl recognizes the environment variable named 'CURL_CA_BUNDLE' if that is
set, and uses the given path as a path to a CA cert bundle. This option