diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index ba7932ffd..4625cd664 100644
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 .\" * $Id$
 .\" **************************************************************************
 .\"
-.TH curl 1 "24 Jun 2005" "Curl 7.14.1" "Curl Manual"
+.TH curl 1 "12 Aug 2005" "Curl 7.14.1" "Curl Manual"
 .SH NAME
 curl \- transfer a URL
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -421,6 +421,11 @@ set headers without knowing perfectly well what you're doing. Replacing an
 internal header with one without content on the right side of the colon will
 prevent that header from appearing.
 
+curl will make sure that each header you add/replace get sent with the proper
+end of line marker, you should thus \fBnot\fP add that as a part of the header
+content: do not add newlines or carriage returns they will only mess things up
+for you.
+
 See also the \fI-A/--user-agent\fP and \fI-e/--referer\fP options.
 
 This option can be used multiple times to add/replace/remove multiple headers.