diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLINFO_TLS_SSL_PTR.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLINFO_TLS_SSL_PTR.3
index 59ddd599c..c601e4fcf 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLINFO_TLS_SSL_PTR.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLINFO_TLS_SSL_PTR.3
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 .\" *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
 .\" *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
 .\" *
-.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2017, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2018, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
 .\" *
 .\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
 .\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -129,14 +129,33 @@ https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/685
 All TLS-based
 .SH EXAMPLE
 .nf
-CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
-if(curl) {
+#include <curl/curl.h>
+#include <openssl/ssl.h>
+
+CURL *curl;
+static size_t wf(void *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *stream)
+{
+  const struct curl_tlssessioninfo *info = NULL;
+  CURLcode res = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_TLS_SSL_PTR, &info);
+  if(info && !res) {
+    if(CURLSSLBACKEND_OPENSSL == info->backend) {
+       printf("OpenSSL ver. %s\\n", SSL_get_version((SSL*)info->internals));
+    }
+  }
+  return size * nmemb;
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char** argv)
+{
   CURLcode res;
-  struct curl_tlssessioninfo *tls;
-  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
-  res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
-  curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_TLS_SSL_PTR, &tls);
-  curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
+  curl = curl_easy_init();
+  if(curl) {
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, wf);
+    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
+    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
+  }
+  return res;
 }
 .fi
 .SH AVAILABILITY