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Updated: Wednesday, July 27, 2022
 
 

CURLOPT_LOGIN_OPTIONS (3)

Name

CURLOPT_LOGIN_OPTIONS - login options

Synopsis

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_LOGIN_OPTIONS, char *options);

Description

CURLOPT_LOGIN_OPTIONS(3)   curl_easy_setopt options   CURLOPT_LOGIN_OPTIONS(3)



NAME
       CURLOPT_LOGIN_OPTIONS - login options

SYNOPSIS
       #include <curl/curl.h>

       CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_LOGIN_OPTIONS, char *options);

DESCRIPTION
       Pass a char * as parameter, which should be pointing to the null-termi-
       nated options string to use for the transfer.

       For more information  about  the  login  options  please  see  RFC2384,
       RFC5092 and IETF draft draft-earhart-url-smtp-00.txt

       CURLOPT_LOGIN_OPTIONS(3)  can  be  used  to set protocol specific login
       options, such as the preferred authentication mechanism via "AUTH=NTLM"
       or  "AUTH=*",  and should be used in conjunction with the CURLOPT_USER-
       NAME(3) option.

       The application does not have to keep the string around  after  setting
       this option.

DEFAULT
       NULL

PROTOCOLS
       Only IMAP, LDAP, POP3 and SMTP support login options.

EXAMPLE
       CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
       if(curl) {
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "smtp://example.com/");
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_LOGIN_OPTIONS, "AUTH=*");
         ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);
         curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
       }

AVAILABILITY
       Added in 7.34.0. Support for OpenLDAP added in 7.82.0.

RETURN VALUE
       Returns  CURLE_OK  if  the option is supported, CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if
       not, or CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.


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


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

SEE ALSO
       CURLOPT_USERNAME(3), CURLOPT_PASSWORD(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                 January 10, 2022       CURLOPT_LOGIN_OPTIONS(3)