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diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_UNRESTRICTED_AUTH.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_UNRESTRICTED_AUTH.3 index 9e4cf269d..a0099b2ef 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_UNRESTRICTED_AUTH.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_UNRESTRICTED_AUTH.3 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ .\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ .\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| .\" * -.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2014, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. +.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2017, 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 @@ -30,16 +30,28 @@ CURLOPT_UNRESTRICTED_AUTH \- send credentials to other hosts too CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_UNRESTRICTED_AUTH, long goahead); .SH DESCRIPTION -A long parameter set to 1 tells libcurl it can continue to send authentication -(user+password) credentials when following locations, even when hostname -changed. This option is meaningful only when setting +Set the long \fIgohead\fP parameter to 1L to make libcurl continue to send +authentication (user+password) credentials when following locations, even when +hostname changed. This option is meaningful only when setting \fICURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION(3)\fP. + +By default, libcurl will only send given credentials to the initial host name +as given in the original URL, to avoid leaking username + password to other +sites. .SH DEFAULT 0 .SH PROTOCOLS HTTP .SH EXAMPLE -TODO +.nf +CURL *curl = curl_easy_init(); +if(curl) { + curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com"); + curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L); + curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_UNRESTRICTED_AUTH, 1L); + curl_easy_perform(curl); +} +.fi .SH AVAILABILITY Along with HTTP .SH RETURN VALUE |