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[PATCH] docs: improve description of the --capath option

From: Alessandro Ghedini <al3xbio_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:04:57 +0100

Document the possibility of providing multiple values using the ":"
separator, and the fact that the default value will be ignored if the
option is used.

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 docs/curl.1 |   16 +++++++++-------
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index 052b1dd..661532b 100644
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -434,13 +434,15 @@ may be loaded.
 If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
 .IP "--capath <CA certificate directory>"
 (SSL) Tells curl to use the specified certificate directory to verify the
-peer. The certificates must be in PEM format, and if curl is built against
-OpenSSL, the directory must have been processed using the c_rehash utility
-supplied with OpenSSL. Using \fI--capath\fP can allow OpenSSL-powered curl to
-make SSL-connections much more efficiently than using \fI--cacert\fP if the
-\fI--cacert\fP file contains many CA certificates.
-
-If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
+peer. Multiple paths can be provided by separating them with ":" (e.g.
+"path1:path2:path3"). The certificates must be in PEM format, and if curl
+is built against OpenSSL, the directory must have been processed using the
+c_rehash utility supplied with OpenSSL. Using \fI--capath\fP can allow
+OpenSSL-powered curl to make SSL-connections much more efficiently than
+using \fI--cacert\fP if the \fI--cacert\fP file contains many CA certificates.
+
+If this option is set, the default capath value will be ignored, and if it
+is used several times, the last one will be used.
 .IP "-f, --fail"
 (HTTP) Fail silently (no output at all) on server errors. This is mostly done
 to better enable scripts etc to better deal with failed attempts. In
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