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CURLOPT_PREREQFUNCTION (3)

Name

CURLOPT_PREREQFUNCTION - user callback called when a connection has been established, but before a request has been made.

Synopsis

#include <curl/curl.h>

/* These are the return codes for the pre-request callback. */
#define CURL_PREREQFUNC_OK 0
#define CURL_PREREQFUNC_ABORT 1 /* fail the entire transfer */

int prereq_callback(void *clientp,
char *conn_primary_ip,
char *conn_local_ip,
int conn_primary_port,
int conn_local_port);

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_PREREQFUNCTION, prereq_callback);

Description

CURLOPT_PREREQFUNCTION(3)  curl_easy_setopt options  CURLOPT_PREREQFUNCTION(3)



NAME
       CURLOPT_PREREQFUNCTION  -  user  callback  called when a connection has
       been established, but before a request has been made.

SYNOPSIS
       #include <curl/curl.h>

       /* These are the return codes for the pre-request callback. */
       #define CURL_PREREQFUNC_OK 0
       #define CURL_PREREQFUNC_ABORT 1 /* fail the entire transfer */

       int prereq_callback(void *clientp,
                           char *conn_primary_ip,
                           char *conn_local_ip,
                           int conn_primary_port,
                           int conn_local_port);

       CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_PREREQFUNCTION, prereq_callback);

DESCRIPTION
       Pass a pointer to your callback function, which should match the proto-
       type shown above.

       This function gets called by libcurl after a connection has been estab-
       lished or a connection has been reused (including any SSL handshaking),
       but before any request is actually made on the connection. For example,
       for HTTP, this callback is called once a  connection  has  been  estab-
       lished  to  the server, but before a GET/HEAD/POST/etc request has been
       sent.

       This function may be called multiple times if redirections are  enabled
       and are being followed (see CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION(3)).

       The  callback  function  must  return CURL_PREREQFUNC_OK on success, or
       CURL_PREREQFUNC_ABORT to cause the transfer to fail.

       This function is passed the following arguments:

       conn_primary_ip
              A nul-terminated pointer to a C string containing the primary IP
              of  the remote server established with this connection. For FTP,
              this is the IP for the control connection.  IPv6  addresses  are
              represented without surrounding brackets.

       conn_local_ip
              A  nul-terminated pointer to a C string containing the originat-
              ing IP for this connection. IPv6 addresses are represented with-
              out surrounding brackets.

       conn_primary_port
              The  primary  port  number on the remote server established with
              this connection.  For FTP, this is the port for the control con-
              nection.  This can be a TCP or a UDP port number dependending on
              the protocol.

       conn_local_port
              The originating port number for this connection. This can  be  a
              TCP or a UDP port number dependending on the protocol.

       clientp
              The pointer you set with CURLOPT_PREREQDATA(3).

DEFAULT
       By default, this is NULL and unused.

PROTOCOLS
       ALL

EXAMPLE
       static int prereq_callback(void *clientp,
                                  char *conn_primary_ip,
                                  char *conn_local_ip,
                                  int conn_primary_port,
                                  int conn_local_port)
       {
         printf("Connection made to %s:%s\n", conn_primary_ip, conn_primary_port);
         return CURL_PREREQFUNC_OK;
       }

       {
         struct data prereq_data;
         curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_PREREQFUNCTION, prereq_callback);
         curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_PREREQDATA, &prereq_data);
       }

AVAILABILITY
       Added in 7.80.0

RETURN VALUE
       Returns  CURLE_OK  if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION
       if not.


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


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

SEE ALSO
       CURLOPT_PREREQDATA(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 05, 2022      CURLOPT_PREREQFUNCTION(3)