Commit 0354cd5f authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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curl.1: clarify -E 

Stress that it is for client certificates and then mention that it also
works for all other SSL-based protocols apart from HTTPS and
FTPS. Namely POP3S, IMAPS and SMTPS for now.
parent 0d0f8084

docs/curl.1

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is used to seed the random engine for SSL connections. See also the

\fI--random-file\fP option.

.IP "-E/--cert <certificate[:password]>"

(SSL) Tells curl to use the specified certificate file when getting a file

with HTTPS or FTPS. The certificate must be in PEM format.  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.

(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 PEM format.  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.



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