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Updated: Wednesday, July 27, 2022
 
 

CURLOPT_ADDRESS_SCOPE (3)

Name

CURLOPT_ADDRESS_SCOPE - scope id for IPv6 addresses

Synopsis

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_ADDRESS_SCOPE, long scope);

Description

CURLOPT_ADDRESS_SCOPE(3)   curl_easy_setopt options   CURLOPT_ADDRESS_SCOPE(3)



NAME
       CURLOPT_ADDRESS_SCOPE - scope id for IPv6 addresses

SYNOPSIS
       #include <curl/curl.h>

       CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_ADDRESS_SCOPE, long scope);

DESCRIPTION
       Pass  a  long  specifying  the scope id value to use when connecting to
       IPv6 addresses.

DEFAULT
       0

PROTOCOLS
       All, when using IPv6

EXAMPLE
       CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
       if(curl) {
         CURLcode ret;
         long my_scope_id;
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/");
         my_scope_id = if_nametoindex("eth0");
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_ADDRESS_SCOPE, my_scope_id);
         ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);
         curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
       }

AVAILABILITY
       Added in 7.19.0

RETURN VALUE
       Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported,  and  CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION
       if  not.   Returns  CURLE_BAD_FUNCTION_ARGUMENT  if  set  to a negative
       value.


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


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

SEE ALSO
       CURLOPT_STDERR(3), CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION(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      CURLOPT_ADDRESS_SCOPE(3)