From 2d5fa35e85c6e0ba84e6922e321bbe3a4511cdf9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 22:43:34 +0200 Subject: docs: clarify NO_PROXY further Fixes #1208 --- docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_NOPROXY.3 | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_NOPROXY.3') diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_NOPROXY.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_NOPROXY.3 index 1048b55a3..a969dc5c2 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_NOPROXY.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_NOPROXY.3 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ .\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ .\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| .\" * -.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2014, Daniel Stenberg, , et al. +.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2017, Daniel Stenberg, , et al. .\" * .\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which .\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms @@ -37,6 +37,10 @@ hostname itself. For example, example.com would match example.com, example.com:80, and www.example.com, but not www.notanexample.com or example.com.othertld. +If the name in the noproxy list has a leading period, it is a domain match +against the provided host name. This way ".example.com" will switch off proxy +use for both "www.example.com" as well as for "foo.example.com". + The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this option. .SH DEFAULT -- cgit v1.2.3