summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/docs/cmdline-opts/ssl-allow-beast.d
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/cmdline-opts/ssl-allow-beast.d')
-rw-r--r--docs/cmdline-opts/ssl-allow-beast.d6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/ssl-allow-beast.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/ssl-allow-beast.d
index f54cf6416..869ff49ba 100644
--- a/docs/cmdline-opts/ssl-allow-beast.d
+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/ssl-allow-beast.d
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ Category: tls
Example: --ssl-allow-beast $URL
---
This option tells curl to not work around a security flaw in the SSL3 and
-TLS1.0 protocols known as BEAST. If this option isn't used, the SSL layer may
-use workarounds known to cause interoperability problems with some older SSL
-implementations.
+TLS1.0 protocols known as BEAST. If this option is not used, the SSL layer
+may use workarounds known to cause interoperability problems with some older
+SSL implementations.
**WARNING**: this option loosens the SSL security, and by using this flag you
ask for exactly that.