Hello, I propose to add a one-line note to the curl(1) man page mentioning the known bug #23 (SOCKS-related problems).
Any comments are welcome! Kamil
diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index 8197e81..ca876be 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -1170,6 +1170,8 @@ mutually exclusive. If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. (This option was previously wrongly documented and used as --socks without the number appended.) + +This option (as well as \fI--socks4\fP) does not work with IPV6, FTPS or LDAP. .IP "--socks5-gssapi-service <servicename>" The default service name for a socks server is rcmd/server-fqdn. This option allows you to change it.
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