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docs: add warnings about FILE: URLs on Windows

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- --url man page section
 - libcurl-security.3 gets the full text
 - CURLOPT_URL.3

Reported-by: Tim Sedlmeyer
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Daniel Stenberg 2020-03-09 14:59:21 +01:00
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.\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
.\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
.\" *
.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2019, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2020, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
.\" *
.\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
.\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@ -152,6 +152,10 @@ path.
ftp://user:password@ftp.example.com//readme.txt - This retrieves the readme.txt
from the root directory when logging in as a specified user.
.IP FILE
When a FILE:// URL is accessed on Windows systems, it can be crafted in a way
so that Windows attempts to connect to a (remote) machine when curl wants to
read or write such a path.
.IP SMTP
The path part of a SMTP request specifies the host name to present during
communication with the mail server. If the path is omitted then libcurl will