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Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_URL.3')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_URL.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_URL.3 index 6e4824a9..a7d81df2 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_URL.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_URL.3 @@ -5,11 +5,11 @@ .\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ .\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| .\" * -.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2015, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. +.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2016, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. .\" * .\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which .\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms -.\" * are also available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html. +.\" * are also available at https://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html. .\" * .\" * You may opt to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute and/or sell .\" * copies of the Software, and permit persons to whom the Software is @@ -40,9 +40,11 @@ libcurl doesn't validate the syntax or use this variable until the transfer is issued. Even if you set a crazy value here, \fIcurl_easy_setopt(3)\fP will still return \fICURLE_OK\fP. -If the given URL lacks the scheme (such as "http://" or "ftp://" etc) then -libcurl will attempt to resolve the protocol based on one of the following -given host names: HTTP, FTP, DICT, LDAP, IMAP, POP3 or SMTP +If the given URL is missing a scheme name (such as "http://" or "ftp://" etc) +then libcurl will make a guess based on the host. If the outermost sub-domain +name matches DICT, FTP, IMAP, LDAP, POP3 or SMTP then that protocol will be +used, otherwise HTTP will be used. Since 7.45.0 guessing can be disabled by +setting a default protocol, see \fICURLOPT_DEFAULT_PROTOCOL(3)\fP for details. Should the protocol, either that specified by the scheme or deduced by libcurl from the host name, not be supported by libcurl then @@ -330,4 +332,5 @@ similar is called. .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR CURLOPT_VERBOSE "(3), " CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS "(3), " .BR CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE "(3), " CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT "(3), " -.BR curl_easy_perform "(3)" +.BR curl_easy_perform "(3), " +.BR CURLINFO_REDIRECT_URL "(3), " CURLOPT_PATH_AS_IS "(3), " |