From 9b87078d556de090a4b3a8db1fd4f962bdd040c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 13:17:54 +0100 Subject: curl.1: -E: s/private certificate/client certificate ... as the certificate is strictly speaking not private. Reported-by: John Levon --- docs/curl.1 | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index edde89d6b..3dab88e5c 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -488,10 +488,10 @@ If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. (SSL) Tells curl to use the specified client certificate file when getting a file with HTTPS, FTPS or another SSL-based protocol. The certificate must be in PKCS#12 format if using Secure Transport, or PEM format if using any other -engine. If the optional password isn't specified, it will be queried -for on the terminal. Note that this option assumes a \&"certificate" file that -is the private key and the private certificate concatenated! See \fI--cert\fP -and \fI--key\fP to specify them independently. +engine. If the optional password isn't specified, it will be queried for on +the terminal. Note that this option assumes a \&"certificate" file that is the +private key and the client certificate concatenated! See \fI--cert\fP and +\fI--key\fP to specify them independently. If curl is built against the NSS SSL library then this option can tell curl the nickname of the certificate to use within the NSS database defined -- cgit v1.2.3