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Updated: Wednesday, July 27, 2022
 
 

curl_version (3)

Name

curl_version - returns the libcurl version string

Synopsis

#include <curl/curl.h>

char *curl_version();

Description

curl_version(3)                 libcurl Manual                 curl_version(3)



NAME
       curl_version - returns the libcurl version string

SYNOPSIS
       #include <curl/curl.h>

       char *curl_version();

DESCRIPTION
       Returns  a human readable string with the version number of libcurl and
       some of its important components (like OpenSSL version).

       We recommend using curl_version_info(3) instead!

EXAMPLE
       printf("libcurl version %s\n", curl_version());


AVAILABILITY
       Always

RETURN VALUE
       A pointer to a null-terminated string. The string resides in  a  stati-
       cally allocated buffer and must not be freed by the caller.


ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE  |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Availability   | web/curl         |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Stability      | Uncommitted      |
       +---------------+------------------+

SEE ALSO
       curl_version_info(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_version(3)