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docs: improve description of the --capath option

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Document the possibility of providing multiple values using the ":"
separator, and the fact that the default value will be ignored if the
option is used.
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Alessandro Ghedini 2011-12-17 15:04:57 +01:00 committed by Daniel Stenberg
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If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "--capath <CA certificate directory>"
(SSL) Tells curl to use the specified certificate directory to verify the
peer. The certificates must be in PEM format, and if curl is built against
OpenSSL, the directory must have been processed using the c_rehash utility
supplied with OpenSSL. Using \fI--capath\fP can allow OpenSSL-powered curl to
make SSL-connections much more efficiently than using \fI--cacert\fP if the
\fI--cacert\fP file contains many CA certificates.
peer. Multiple paths can be provided by separating them with ":" (e.g.
"path1:path2:path3"). The certificates must be in PEM format, and if curl
is built against OpenSSL, the directory must have been processed using the
c_rehash utility supplied with OpenSSL. Using \fI--capath\fP can allow
OpenSSL-powered curl to make SSL-connections much more efficiently than
using \fI--cacert\fP if the \fI--cacert\fP file contains many CA certificates.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
If this option is set, the default capath value will be ignored, and if it
is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "-f, --fail"
(HTTP) Fail silently (no output at all) on server errors. This is mostly done
to better enable scripts etc to better deal with failed attempts. In