From 21c16f923c0618cf35fdc71921b3544f8ea04eca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 21:36:52 +0000 Subject: Julian Noble pointed out that capath is indeed working fine on Windows these days since the c_rehash tool is written (fixed) to do the proper action even on file systems that don't support symlinks. --- docs/curl.1 | 9 ++++----- src/main.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index 50831ac62..8482fc8af 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -220,11 +220,10 @@ be in PEM format. If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "--capath " (HTTPS) Tells curl to use the specified certificate directory to verify the -peer. The certificates must be in PEM format, and the directory must have been -processed using the c_rehash utility supplied with openssl. Certificate directories -are not supported under Windows (because c_rehash uses symbolink links to -create them). Using --capath can allow curl to make https connections much -more efficiently than using --cacert if the --cacert file contains many CA certificates. +peer. The certificates must be in PEM format, and the directory must have been +processed using the c_rehash utility supplied with openssl. Using --capath can +allow curl to make https connections much more efficiently than using --cacert +if the --cacert file contains many CA certificates. If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "-f/--fail" diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c index 6397e9035..16cde8852 100644 --- a/src/main.c +++ b/src/main.c @@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ static void help(void) puts(" --engine Specifies the crypto engine to use (HTTPS)\n" " --cacert CA certifciate to verify peer against (SSL)\n" " --capath CA directory (made using c_rehash) to verify\n" - " peer against (SSL, NOT Windows)\n" + " peer against (SSL)\n" " --ciphers What SSL ciphers to use (SSL)\n" " --compressed Request a compressed response (using deflate)."); puts(" --connect-timeout Maximum time allowed for connection\n" -- cgit v1.2.3