Julian Noble pointed out that capath is indeed working fine on Windows

these days since the c_rehash tool is written (fixed) to do the proper
action even on file systems that don't support symlinks.

diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index 50831ac62c758eb08ea8c7708aab2b6c0928bfc2..8482fc8afc938996cd412315e19e43a32483f06f 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -220,11 +220,10 @@ be in PEM format.
 If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
 .IP "--capath <CA certificate directory>"
 (HTTPS) Tells curl to use the specified certificate directory to verify the
-peer. The certificates must be in PEM format, and the directory must have been 
-processed using the c_rehash utility supplied with openssl. Certificate directories
-are not supported under Windows (because c_rehash uses symbolink links to
-create them). Using --capath can allow curl to make https connections much
-more efficiently than using --cacert if the --cacert file contains many CA certificates.
+peer. The certificates must be in PEM format, and the directory must have been
+processed using the c_rehash utility supplied with openssl. Using --capath can
+allow curl to make https connections much more efficiently than using --cacert
+if the --cacert file contains many CA certificates.
 
 If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
 .IP "-f/--fail"

diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
index 6397e9035dd478c32180a648063f784296fe1cc0..16cde8852395e585a4ccab390f8cc16869484224 100644 (file)
--- a/src/main.c
+++ b/src/main.c
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ static void help(void)
   puts("    --engine <eng>  Specifies the crypto engine to use (HTTPS)\n"
        "    --cacert <file> CA certifciate to verify peer against (SSL)\n"
        "    --capath <directory> CA directory (made using c_rehash) to verify\n"
-       "                    peer against (SSL, NOT Windows)\n"
+       "                    peer against (SSL)\n"
        "    --ciphers <list> What SSL ciphers to use (SSL)\n"
        "    --compressed    Request a compressed response (using deflate).");
   puts("    --connect-timeout <seconds> Maximum time allowed for connection\n"