curl_easy_init - Start a libcurl easy session
#include <curl/curl.h> CURL *curl_easy_init();
curl_easy_init(3) libcurl Manual curl_easy_init(3) NAME curl_easy_init - Start a libcurl easy session SYNOPSIS #include <curl/curl.h> CURL *curl_easy_init(); DESCRIPTION This function must be the first function to call, and it returns a CURL easy handle that you must use as input to other functions in the easy interface. This call MUST have a corresponding call to curl_easy_cleanup(3) when the operation is complete. If you did not already call curl_global_init(3), curl_easy_init(3) does it automatically. This may be lethal in multi-threaded cases, since curl_global_init(3) is not thread-safe, and it may result in resource problems because there is no corresponding cleanup. You are strongly advised to not allow this automatic behavior, by call- ing curl_global_init(3) yourself properly. See the description in libcurl(3) of global environment requirements for details of how to use this function. EXAMPLE CURL *curl = curl_easy_init(); if(curl) { CURLcode res; curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com"); res = curl_easy_perform(curl); curl_easy_cleanup(curl); } AVAILABILITY Always RETURN VALUE If this function returns NULL, something went wrong and you cannot use the other curl functions. ATTRIBUTES See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes: +---------------+------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +---------------+------------------+ |Availability | web/curl | +---------------+------------------+ |Stability | Uncommitted | +---------------+------------------+ SEE ALSO curl_easy_cleanup(3), curl_global_init(3), curl_easy_reset(3), curl_easy_perform(3) NOTES Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source- code-downloads.html. This software was built from source available at https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community source was downloaded from https://curl.se/down- load/curl-7.83.1.tar.bz2. Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at http://curl.haxx.se/. libcurl 7.83.1 November 26, 2021 curl_easy_init(3)