diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index fa6d720d2fce55afef3b949b3181866ff5155ae5..ba7932ffd2a4e87b15e69f5099ee307d565e8e18 100644
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 .\" * $Id$
 .\" **************************************************************************
 .\"
-.TH curl 1 "28 Apr 2005" "Curl 7.14.0" "Curl Manual"
+.TH curl 1 "24 Jun 2005" "Curl 7.14.1" "Curl Manual"
 .SH NAME
 curl \- transfer a URL
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -958,11 +958,11 @@ SSPI is supported. If you use NTLM and set a blank user name, curl will
 authenticate with your current user and password.
 .RE
 .IP "-w/--write-out <format>"
-Defines what to display after a completed and successful operation. The format
-is a string that may contain plain text mixed with any number of variables. The
-string can be specified as "string", to get read from a particular file you
-specify it "@filename" and to tell curl to read the format from stdin you
-write "@-".
+Defines what to display on stdout after a completed and successful
+operation. The format is a string that may contain plain text mixed with any
+number of variables. The string can be specified as "string", to get read from
+a particular file you specify it "@filename" and to tell curl to read the
+format from stdin you write "@-".
 
 The variables present in the output format will be substituted by the value or
 text that curl thinks fit, as described below. All variables are specified
@@ -1058,6 +1058,10 @@ transparently be converted to HTTP. It means that certain protocol specific
 operations might not be available. This is not the case if you can tunnel
 through the proxy, as done with the \fI-p/--proxytunnel\fP option.
 
+Starting with 7.14.1, the proxy host can be specified the exact same way as
+the proxy environment variables, include protocol prefix (http://) and
+embedded user + password.
+
 If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
 .IP "-X/--request <command>"
 (HTTP)
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index ecdfdceec8458d720de341fcf2ac8f94cb26bcfd..78a6d37989e47d6589e1b496bc7a62701ec3009f 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 .\" * $Id$
 .\" **************************************************************************
 .\"
-.TH curl_easy_setopt 3 "12 May 2005" "libcurl 7.14.0" "libcurl Manual"
+.TH curl_easy_setopt 3 "24 Jun 2005" "libcurl 7.14.1" "libcurl Manual"
 .SH NAME
 curl_easy_setopt - set options for a curl easy handle
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -283,6 +283,10 @@ unless you tunnel through the HTTP proxy. Such tunneling is activated with
 
 \fBNOTE2:\fP libcurl respects the environment variables \fBhttp_proxy\fP,
 \fBftp_proxy\fP, \fBall_proxy\fP etc, if any of those is set.
+
+Starting with 7.14.1, the proxy host string can be specified the exact same
+way as the proxy environment variables, include protocol prefix (http://) and
+embedded user + password.
 .IP CURLOPT_PROXYPORT
 Pass a long with this option to set the proxy port to connect to unless it is
 specified in the proxy string \fICURLOPT_PROXY\fP.