From 3481c54d02e97515921090e939d14188fd0ceb3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Billingham <james@jamesbillingham.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 13:11:19 +0000
Subject: Added small note of file format

---
 doc-src/ssl.html | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

(limited to 'doc-src')

diff --git a/doc-src/ssl.html b/doc-src/ssl.html
index 03067c30..c904cf61 100644
--- a/doc-src/ssl.html
+++ b/doc-src/ssl.html
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ Using a custom certificate
 
 You can use your own certificate by passing the __--cert__ option to mitmproxy.
 
+The certificate file is expected to be in the PEM format. You can generate
+a certificate in this format using these instructions:
+
 <pre class="terminal">
 > openssl genrsa -out cert.key 8192
 > openssl req -new -x509 -key cert.key -out cert.crt
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