Commit 9b87078d authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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curl.1: -E: s/private certificate/client certificate 

... as the certificate is strictly speaking not private.

Reported-by: John Levon
parent 370ee919

docs/curl.1

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@@ -488,10 +488,10 @@ If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. 
(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 PKCS#12 format if using Secure Transport, or PEM format if using any other

engine.  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.

engine.  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 client 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