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CURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME

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

CURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME - username to use for proxy authentication

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME,
                          char *username);

DESCRIPTION

Pass a char pointer as parameter, which should be pointing to the null-terminated username to use for the transfer.

CURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME(3) sets the username to be used in protocol authentication with the proxy.

To specify the proxy password use the CURLOPT_PROXYPASSWORD(3).

The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this option.

DEFAULT

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PROTOCOLS

This functionality affects all supported protocols

EXAMPLE

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    CURLcode result;
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/foo.bin");
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXY, "http://localhost:8080");
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME, "mrsmith");
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXYPASSWORD, "qwerty");
    result = curl_easy_perform(curl);
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }
}

AVAILABILITY

Added in curl 7.19.1

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).