CURLOPT_NOBODY - do the download request without getting the body
#include <curl/curl.h> CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_NOBODY, long opt);
CURLOPT_NOBODY(3) curl_easy_setopt options CURLOPT_NOBODY(3) NAME CURLOPT_NOBODY - do the download request without getting the body SYNOPSIS #include <curl/curl.h> CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_NOBODY, long opt); DESCRIPTION A long parameter set to 1 tells libcurl to not include the body-part in the output when doing what would otherwise be a download. For HTTP(S), this makes libcurl do a HEAD request. For most other protocols it means just not asking to transfer the body data. For HTTP operations when CURLOPT_NOBODY(3) has been set, unsetting the option (with 0) will make it a GET again - only if the method is still set to be HEAD. The proper way to get back to a GET request is to set CURLOPT_HTTPGET(3) and for other methods, use the POST or UPLOAD options. Enabling CURLOPT_NOBODY(3) means asking for a download without a body. If you do a transfer with HTTP that involves a method other than HEAD, you will get a body (unless the resource and server sends a zero byte body for the specific URL you request). DEFAULT 0, the body is transferred PROTOCOLS Most EXAMPLE curl = curl_easy_init(); if(curl) { curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com"); /* get us the resource without a body - use HEAD! */ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 1L); /* Perform the request */ curl_easy_perform(curl); } AVAILABILITY Always 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_HTTPGET(3), CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS(3), CURLOPT_UPLOAD(3), CUR- LOPT_REQUEST_TARGET(3), CURLOPT_MIMEPOST(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_NOBODY(3)