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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2015-09-08 13:42:48 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2015-09-08 15:17:00 +0200
commit87e533ace035849c612968fbad0a55dc93a93185 (patch)
treed48637cde9df0d4e1da45a0a6bf6579089ab601b /docs
parent27620171ffe1a47735de706aa0b0a66d45f867ed (diff)
downloadcurl-87e533ace035849c612968fbad0a55dc93a93185.tar.gz
parse_proxy: reject illegal port numbers
If the port number in the proxy string ended weirdly or the number is too large, skip it. Mostly as a means to bail out early if a "bare" IPv6 numerical address is used without enclosing brackets. Also mention the bracket requirement for IPv6 numerical addresses to the man page for CURLOPT_PROXY. Closes #415 Reported-by: Marcel Raad
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_PROXY.36
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_PROXY.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_PROXY.3
index b419e51bc..cf5c7574c 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_PROXY.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_PROXY.3
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
.\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
.\" *
-.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2014, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2015, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
.\" *
.\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
.\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ CURLOPT_PROXY \- set proxy to use
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_PROXY, char *proxy);
.SH DESCRIPTION
Set the \fIproxy\fP to use for the upcoming request. The parameter should be a
-char * to a zero terminated string holding the host name or dotted IP
-address.
+char * to a zero terminated string holding the host name or dotted numerical
+IP address. A numerical IPv6 address must be written within [brackets].
To specify port number in this string, append :[port] to the end of the host
name. The proxy's port number may optionally be specified with the separate