Commit 21c16f92 authored Feb 03, 2003 by Daniel Stenberg

Julian Noble pointed out that capath is indeed working fine on Windows

these days since the c_rehash tool is written (fixed) to do the proper
action even on file systems that don't support symlinks.

parent 32cef52f

docs/curl.1

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		@@ -221,10 +221,9 @@ If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
		.IP "--capath <CA certificate directory>"
		(HTTPS) Tells curl to use the specified certificate directory to verify the
		peer. The certificates must be in PEM format, and the directory must have been
		processed using the c_rehash utility supplied with openssl. Certificate directories
		are not supported under Windows (because c_rehash uses symbolink links to
		create them). Using --capath can allow curl to make https connections much
		more efficiently than using --cacert if the --cacert file contains many CA certificates.
		processed using the c_rehash utility supplied with openssl. Using --capath can
		allow curl to make https connections much more efficiently than using --cacert
		if the --cacert file contains many CA certificates.

		If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
		.IP "-f/--fail"

src/main.c

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		@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ static void help(void)
		puts(" --engine <eng> Specifies the crypto engine to use (HTTPS)\n"
		" --cacert <file> CA certifciate to verify peer against (SSL)\n"
		" --capath <directory> CA directory (made using c_rehash) to verify\n"
		" peer against (SSL, NOT Windows)\n"
		" peer against (SSL)\n"
		" --ciphers <list> What SSL ciphers to use (SSL)\n"
		" --compressed Request a compressed response (using deflate).");
		puts(" --connect-timeout <seconds> Maximum time allowed for connection\n"