CURLOPT_STDERR

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

CURLOPT_STDERR - redirect stderr to another stream  

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_STDERR, FILE *stream);

 

DESCRIPTION

Pass a FILE * as parameter. Tell libcurl to use this stream instead of stderr when showing the progress meter and displaying CURLOPT_VERBOSE(3) data.

If you are using libcurl as a Windows DLL, this option causes an exception and a crash in the library since it cannot access a FILE * passed on from the application. A work-around is to instead use CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION(3).  

DEFAULT

stderr  

PROTOCOLS

This functionality affects all supported protocols  

EXAMPLE

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  FILE *filep = fopen("dump", "wb");
  if(curl) {
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_STDERR, filep);

    curl_easy_perform(curl);
  }
}

 

AVAILABILITY

Added in curl 7.1  

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).  

SEE ALSO

CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION(3), CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS(3), CURLOPT_VERBOSE(3)

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