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CURLOPT_HEADEROPT: default to separate

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Make the HTTP headers separated by default for improved security and
reduced risk for information leakage.

Bug: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20150429.html
Reported-by: Yehezkel Horowitz, Oren Souroujon
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Daniel Stenberg
2015-04-23 15:58:21 +02:00
parent 1f8a337e41
commit 6ba2e88a64
5 changed files with 10 additions and 8 deletions
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docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_HEADEROPT.3
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@@ -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
@@ -31,10 +31,10 @@ CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_HEADEROPT, long bitmask);
Pass a long that is a bitmask of options of how to deal with headers. The two
mutually exclusive options are:
\fBCURLHEADER_UNIFIED\fP - keep working as before. This means
\fICURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3)\fP headers will be used in requests both to servers
and proxies. With this option enabled, \fICURLOPT_PROXYHEADER(3)\fP will not
have any effect.
\fBCURLHEADER_UNIFIED\fP - the headers specified in
\fICURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3)\fP will be used in requests both to servers and
proxies. With this option enabled, \fICURLOPT_PROXYHEADER(3)\fP will not have
any effect.
\fBCURLHEADER_SEPARATE\fP - makes \fICURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3)\fP headers only get
sent to a server and not to a proxy. Proxy headers must be set with
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ headers. When doing CONNECT, libcurl will send \fICURLOPT_PROXYHEADER(3)\fP
headers only to the proxy and then \fICURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3)\fP headers only to
the server.
.SH DEFAULT
CURLHEADER_UNIFIED
CURLHEADER_SEPARATE (changed in 7.42.1, ased CURLHEADER_UNIFIED before then)
.SH PROTOCOLS
HTTP
.SH EXAMPLE