From 8b5295d00338b56cafec2a8fb142e60851a6eea1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:21:05 +0000 Subject: setting CURLOPT_PROXY to "" explicitly disables the use of a proxy (even if there is an environment variable set) --- docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/libcurl') diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 index 9e32f13aa..a5aa25b8c 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ .\" * $Id$ .\" ************************************************************************** .\" -.TH curl_easy_setopt 3 "12 Feb 2007" "libcurl 7.16.2" "libcurl Manual" +.TH curl_easy_setopt 3 "22 Feb 2007" "libcurl 7.16.2" "libcurl Manual" .SH NAME curl_easy_setopt \- set options for a curl easy handle .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -389,10 +389,12 @@ libcurl respects the environment variables \fBhttp_proxy\fP, \fBftp_proxy\fP, \fBall_proxy\fP etc, if any of those is set. The \fICURLOPT_PROXY\fP option does however override any possibly set environment variables. -Starting with 7.14.1, the proxy host string given in environment variables can -be specified the exact same way as the proxy can be set with -\fICURLOPT_PROXY\fP, include protocol prefix (http://) and embedded user + -password. +Setting the proxy string to "" (an empty string) will explicitly disable the +use of a proxy, even if there is an environment variable set for it. + +Since 7.14.1, the proxy host string given in environment variables can be +specified the exact same way as the proxy can be set with \fICURLOPT_PROXY\fP, +include protocol prefix (http://) and embedded user + password. .IP CURLOPT_PROXYPORT Pass a long with this option to set the proxy port to connect to unless it is specified in the proxy string \fICURLOPT_PROXY\fP. -- cgit v1.2.3