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Updated: Wednesday, July 27, 2022
 
 

CURLOPT_LOCALPORT (3)

Name

CURLOPT_LOCALPORT - local port number to use for socket

Synopsis

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_LOCALPORT, long port);

Description

CURLOPT_LOCALPORT(3)       curl_easy_setopt options       CURLOPT_LOCALPORT(3)



NAME
       CURLOPT_LOCALPORT - local port number to use for socket

SYNOPSIS
       #include <curl/curl.h>

       CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_LOCALPORT, long port);

DESCRIPTION
       Pass a long. This sets the local port number of the socket used for the
       connection. This can be used in combination  with  CURLOPT_INTERFACE(3)
       and  you  are recommended to use CURLOPT_LOCALPORTRANGE(3) as well when
       this option is set. Valid port numbers are 1 - 65535.

DEFAULT
       0, disabled - use whatever the system thinks is fine

PROTOCOLS
       All

EXAMPLE
       CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
       if(curl) {
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/foo.bin");
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_LOCALPORT, 49152L);
         /* and try 20 more ports following that */
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_LOCALPORTRANGE, 20L);
         ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);
         curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
       }

AVAILABILITY
       Added in 7.15.2

RETURN VALUE
       Returns CURLE_OK


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


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

SEE ALSO
       CURLOPT_LOCALPORTRANGE(3), CURLOPT_INTERFACE(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_LOCALPORT(3)