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-.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2011, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2012, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
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scheme://host:port/path
-For a greater explanation of the format please see RFC 2396
-(http://curl.haxx.se/rfc/rfc2396.txt).
+For a greater explanation of the format please see RFC 3986
+(http://curl.haxx.se/rfc/rfc3986.txt).
If the given URL lacks the scheme, or protocol, part ("http://" or "ftp://"
etc), libcurl will attempt to resolve which protocol to use based on the