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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.3 | 16 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.3 b/docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.3 index 6d366219e..bb5f6628b 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.3 @@ -667,14 +667,14 @@ default to assume a HTTP proxy): .IP "Environment Variables" -libcurl automatically checks and uses a set of environment variables to -know what proxies to use for certain protocols. The names of the variables -are following an ancient de facto standard and are built up as -"[protocol]_proxy" (note the lower casing). Which makes the variable -'http_proxy' checked for a name of a proxy to use when the input URL is -HTTP. Following the same rule, the variable named 'ftp_proxy' is checked -for FTP URLs. Again, the proxies are always HTTP proxies, the different -names of the variables simply allows different HTTP proxies to be used. +libcurl automatically checks and uses a set of environment variables to know +what proxies to use for certain protocols. The names of the variables are +following an ancient de facto standard and are built up as "[protocol]_proxy" +(note the lower casing). Which makes the variable \&'http_proxy' checked for a +name of a proxy to use when the input URL is HTTP. Following the same rule, +the variable named 'ftp_proxy' is checked for FTP URLs. Again, the proxies are +always HTTP proxies, the different names of the variables simply allows +different HTTP proxies to be used. The proxy environment variable contents should be in the format \&"[protocol://][user:password@]machine[:port]". Where the protocol:// part is |