While flexible, this is not the sophistication of full regular expression based syntax.
</para>
+<para>
+ When compiled with FEATURE_PCRE_HOST_PATTERNS patterns can be prefixed with
+ <quote>PCRE-HOST-PATTERN:</quote> in which case full regular expression
+ (PCRE) can be used for the host pattern as well.
+</para>
+
</sect3>
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certificate.
</para>
<para>
- If the certificate is invalid the connection is aborted.
+ If the certificate can't be validated by &my-app; the connection is aborted.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ This action disables the certificate check so requests to sites
+ with certificates that can't be validated are allowed.
</para>
<para>
- This action disabled the certificate check allowing requests to sites
- with invalid certificates.
+ Note that enabling this action allows Man-in-the-middle attacks.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>