Commit 07dc741e authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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mention default port number

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@@ -445,7 +445,8 @@ Set HTTP proxy to use. The parameter should be a char * to a zero terminated
string holding the host name or dotted IP address. To specify port number in
this string, append :[port] to the end of the host name. The proxy string may
be prefixed with [protocol]:// since any such prefix will be ignored. The
proxy's port number may optionally be specified with the separate option
proxy's port number may optionally be specified with the separate option. If
not specified, libcurl will default to using port 1080 for proxies.
\fICURLOPT_PROXYPORT\fP.

When you tell the library to use an HTTP proxy, libcurl will transparently