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diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/ssl-allow-beast.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/ssl-allow-beast.d index f18fe7470..f54cf6416 100644 --- a/docs/cmdline-opts/ssl-allow-beast.d +++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/ssl-allow-beast.d @@ -2,9 +2,12 @@ Long: ssl-allow-beast Help: Allow security flaw to improve interop Added: 7.25.0 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. WARNING: this option loosens the SSL security, and by using -this flag you ask for exactly that. +implementations. + +**WARNING**: this option loosens the SSL security, and by using this flag you +ask for exactly that. |