From ec54fbd9ed0d14edce1f3f8bdbc30880641216c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:40:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] just mention in --cacert that curl normally has a default ca
 cert path built-in

---
 docs/curl.1 | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index 6045271563..2bd044c54c 100644
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -361,9 +361,10 @@ DER and ENG are recognized types.  If not specified, PEM is assumed.
 
 If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
 .IP "--cacert <CA certificate>"
-(SSL) Tells curl to use the specified certificate file to verify the
-peer. The file may contain multiple CA certificates. The certificate(s) must
-be in PEM format.
+(SSL) Tells curl to use the specified certificate file to verify the peer. The
+file may contain multiple CA certificates. The certificate(s) must be in PEM
+format. Normally curl is built to use a default file for this, so this option
+is typically used to alter that default file.
 
 curl recognizes the environment variable named 'CURL_CA_BUNDLE' if that is
 set, and uses the given path as a path to a CA cert bundle. This option
-- 
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