docs: clarify NO_PROXY further

Fixes #1208
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Daniel Stenberg 2017-05-30 22:43:34 +02:00
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2 changed files with 10 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
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@ -37,6 +37,10 @@ hostname itself. For example, example.com would match example.com,
example.com:80, and www.example.com, but not www.notanexample.com or
example.com.othertld.
If the name in the noproxy list has a leading period, it is a domain match
against the provided host name. This way ".example.com" will switch off proxy
use for both "www.example.com" as well as for "foo.example.com".
The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this
option.
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