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CURLOPT_PROXYPORT

Section: curl_easy_setopt options (3)
Updated: May 31, 2017
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NAME

CURLOPT_PROXYPORT - port number the proxy listens on

SYNOPSIS

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_PROXYPORT, long port);

DESCRIPTION

Pass a long with this option to set the proxy port to connect to unless it is specified in the proxy string CURLOPT_PROXY(3) or uses 443 for https proxies and 1080 for all others as default.

While this accepts a 'long', the port number is 16 bit so it can't be larger than 65535.

DEFAULT

0, not specified which makes it use the default port

PROTOCOLS

All

EXAMPLE

CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com/foo.bin");
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXY, "localhost");
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXYPORT, 8080L);
  ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);
  curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}

AVAILABILITY

Always

RETURN VALUE

Returns CURLE_OK