nghttpx: Describe api parameter in --frontend option

708c99c0 · Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa · fbdfecc1 · 708c99c0
Commit 708c99c0 authored Jun 04, 2016 by Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa
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@@ -1341,6 +1341,13 @@ Connections:
              Optionally, TLS  can be disabled by  specifying "no-tls"
              parameter.  TLS is enabled by default.

+              To  make this  frontend as  API endpoint,  specify "api"
+              parameter.   This   is  disabled  by  default.    It  is
+              important  to  limit the  access  to  the API  frontend.
+              Otherwise, someone  may change  the backend  server, and
+              break your services,  or expose confidential information
+              to the outside the world.
+
              Default: *,3000
  --backlog=<N>
              Set listen backlog size.