From 499024d2085c56edd2fd4b46d8b5b5e140616fc0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2015 00:05:55 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] curl.1: add warning when using -H and redirects --- docs/curl.1 | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index af5d5f348..8b2d3f8cc 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -743,6 +743,12 @@ Example: \&# curl -H "X-First-Name: Joe" http://192.168.0.1/ +\fBWARNING\fP: headers set with this option will be set in all requests - even +after redirects are followed, like when told with \fB-L, --location\fP. This +can lead to the header being sent to other hosts than the original host, so +sensitive headers should be used with caution combined with following +redirects. + This option can be used multiple times to add/replace/remove multiple headers. .IP "--hostpubmd5 " (SCP/SFTP) Pass a string containing 32 hexadecimal digits. The string should -- 2.50.1