string holding the host name or dotted IP address. To specify port number in
this string, append :[port] to the end of the host name. The proxy string may
be prefixed with [protocol]:// since any such prefix will be ignored. The
-proxy's port number may optionally be specified with the separate option. If
-not specified, libcurl will default to using port 1080 for proxies.
-\fICURLOPT_PROXYPORT\fP.
+proxy's port number may optionally be specified with the separate option
+\fICURLOPT_PROXYPORT\fP. If not specified, libcurl will default to using port
+1080 for proxies.
When you tell the library to use a HTTP proxy, libcurl will transparently
convert operations to HTTP even if you specify an FTP URL etc. This may have