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<p class="level0"><a name="NAME"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">NAME</h2>
<p class="level0">CURLMOPT_MAX_HOST_CONNECTIONS - set max number of connections to a single host <a name="SYNOPSIS"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">SYNOPSIS</h2>
-<p class="level0">#include <curl/curl.h>
+<p class="level0">#include <curl/curl.h>
<p class="level0">CURLMcode curl_multi_setopt(CURLM *handle, CURLMOPT_MAX_HOST_CONNECTIONS, long max); <a name="DESCRIPTION"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">DESCRIPTION</h2>
-<p class="level0">Pass a long to indicate <span Class="bold">max</span>. The set number will be used as the maximum amount of simultaneously open connections to a single host. For each new session to a host, libcurl will open a new connection up to the limit set by <a Class="emphasis" href="./CURLMOPT_MAX_HOST_CONNECTIONS.html">CURLMOPT_MAX_HOST_CONNECTIONS</a>. When the limit is reached, the sessions will be pending until a connection becomes available. If <a Class="emphasis" href="./CURLMOPT_PIPELINING.html">CURLMOPT_PIPELINING</a> is enabled, libcurl will try to pipeline if the host is capable of it.
-<p class="level0">The default <span Class="bold">max</span> value is 0, unlimited. However, for backwards compatibility, setting it to 0 when <a Class="emphasis" href="./CURLMOPT_PIPELINING.html">CURLMOPT_PIPELINING</a> is 1 will not be treated as unlimited. Instead it will open only 1 connection and try to pipeline on it. <a name="DEFAULT"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">DEFAULT</h2>
+<p class="level0">Pass a long to indicate <span Class="bold">max</span>. The set number will be used as the maximum amount of simultaneously open connections to a single host (a host being the same as a host name + port number pair). For each new session to a host, libcurl will open a new connection up to the limit set by <a Class="emphasis" href="./CURLMOPT_MAX_HOST_CONNECTIONS.html">CURLMOPT_MAX_HOST_CONNECTIONS</a>. When the limit is reached, the sessions will be pending until a connection becomes available. If <a Class="emphasis" href="./CURLMOPT_PIPELINING.html">CURLMOPT_PIPELINING</a> is enabled, libcurl will try to pipeline if the host is capable of it.
+<p class="level0">The default <span Class="bold">max</span> value is 0, unlimited. However, for backwards compatibility, setting it to 0 when <a Class="emphasis" href="./CURLMOPT_PIPELINING.html">CURLMOPT_PIPELINING</a> is 1 will not be treated as unlimited. Instead it will open only 1 connection and try to pipeline on it.
+<p class="level0">This set limit is also used for proxy connections, and then the proxy is considered to be the host for which this limit counts. <a name="DEFAULT"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">DEFAULT</h2>
<p class="level0">0 <a name="PROTOCOLS"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">PROTOCOLS</h2>
<p class="level0">HTTP(S) <a name="EXAMPLE"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">EXAMPLE</h2>
<p class="level0">TODO <a name="AVAILABILITY"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">AVAILABILITY</h2>