CURLOPT_PREREQDATA

Section: C Library Functions (3)
Updated: 202-0-19
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NAME

CURLOPT_PREREQDATA - pointer passed to the pre-request callback  

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_PREREQDATA, void *pointer);

 

DESCRIPTION

Pass a pointer that is untouched by libcurl and passed as the first argument in the pre-request callback set with CURLOPT_PREREQFUNCTION(3).  

DEFAULT

NULL  

PROTOCOLS

This functionality affects all supported protocols  

EXAMPLE

struct priv {
  void *custom;
};

static int prereq_callback(void *clientp,
                           char *conn_primary_ip,
                           char *conn_local_ip,
                           int conn_primary_port,
                           int conn_local_port)
{
  printf("Connection made to %s:%dn", conn_primary_ip, conn_primary_port);
  return CURL_PREREQFUNC_OK;
}

int main(void)
{
  struct priv prereq_data;
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PREREQFUNCTION, prereq_callback);
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PREREQDATA, &prereq_data);
    curl_easy_perform(curl);
  }
}

 

AVAILABILITY

Added in curl 7.80.0  

RETURN VALUE

curl_easy_setopt(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error.

CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error occurred, see libcurl-errors(3).  

SEE ALSO

CURLINFO_PRIMARY_IP(3), CURLINFO_PRIMARY_PORT(3), CURLOPT_PREREQFUNCTION(3)

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