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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2020-10-16 15:36:01 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2020-10-16 15:36:01 +0200
commitbfd35d5edadffa5d36e99c1c7b1b060d88510fdd (patch)
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parent6d1a05b0bf991ad6d25151ed92ee3924579e19b3 (diff)
downloadcurl-bfd35d5edadffa5d36e99c1c7b1b060d88510fdd.tar.gz
CURLOPT_URL.3: clarify SCP/SFTP URLs are for uploads as well
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-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_URL.317
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_URL.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_URL.3
index f9222c3b4..3bec3c1b0 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_URL.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_URL.3
@@ -220,8 +220,8 @@ For more information about the individual components of an IMAP URL please
see RFC5092.
.IP SCP
-The path part of a SCP request specifies the file to retrieve and from what
-directory. The file part may not be omitted. The file is taken as an absolute
+The path part of an SCP URL specifies the path and file to retrieve or
+upload. The file part may not be omitted. The file is taken as an absolute
path from the root directory on the server. To specify a path relative to the
user's home directory on the server, prepend ~/ to the path portion. If the
user name is not embedded in the URL, it can be set with the
@@ -232,13 +232,12 @@ scp://user@example.com/etc/issue - This specifies the file /etc/issue
scp://example.com/~/my-file - This specifies the file my-file in the
user's home directory on the server
.IP SFTP
-The path part of a SFTP request specifies the file to retrieve and from what
-directory. If the file part is omitted then libcurl downloads the directory
-listing for the directory specified. If the path ends in a / then a directory
-listing is returned instead of a file. If the path is omitted entirely then
-the directory listing for the root / home directory will be returned. If the
-user name is not embedded in the URL, it can be set with the
-\fICURLOPT_USERPWD(3)\fP or \fICURLOPT_USERNAME(3)\fP option.
+The path part of an SFTP URL specifies the file to retrieve or upload. If the
+path ends in a / then a directory listing is returned instead of a file. If
+the path is omitted entirely then the directory listing for the root / home
+directory will be returned. If the user name is not embedded in the URL, it
+can be set with the \fICURLOPT_USERPWD(3)\fP or \fICURLOPT_USERNAME(3)\fP
+option.
sftp://user:password@example.com/etc/issue - This specifies the file
/etc/issue