From 5e9675ad1efffdf29163b031527c9f2faf6cae86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 08:47:30 +0000
Subject: filled in the -k text too

---
 docs/curl.1 | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'docs')

diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index cb5748134..6b212326a 100644
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -309,7 +309,11 @@ cookies when they're closed down. (Added in 7.9.7)
 
 If this option is used several times, each occurrence will toggle this on/off.
 .IP "-k/--insecure"
-(SSL)
+(SSL) This option explicitly allows curl to perform "insecure" SSL connections
+and transfers. Starting with curl 7.10, all SSL connections will be attempted
+to be made secure by using the CA certificate bundle installed by
+default. This makes all connections considered "insecure" to fail unless
+-k/--insecure is used.
 
 If this option is used twice, the second time will again disable it.
 .IP "--krb4 <level>"
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