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Updated: Wednesday, July 27, 2022
 
 

CURLOPT_REQUEST_TARGET (3)

Name

CURLOPT_REQUEST_TARGET - alternative target for this request

Synopsis

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_REQUEST_TARGET, string);

Description

CURLOPT_REQUEST_TARGET(3)  curl_easy_setopt options  CURLOPT_REQUEST_TARGET(3)



NAME
       CURLOPT_REQUEST_TARGET - alternative target for this request

SYNOPSIS
       #include <curl/curl.h>

       CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_REQUEST_TARGET, string);

DESCRIPTION
       Pass  a  char  *  to  string which libcurl uses in the upcoming request
       instead of the path as extracted from the URL.

DEFAULT
       NULL

PROTOCOLS
       HTTP

EXAMPLE
       curl = curl_easy_init();
       if(curl) {
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/*");
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "OPTIONS");

         /* issue an OPTIONS * request (no leading slash) */
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_REQUEST_TARGET, "*");

         /* Perform the request */
         curl_easy_perform(curl);
       }

AVAILABILITY
       Added in 7.55.0

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_CUSTOMREQUEST(3), CURLOPT_HTTPGET(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_REQUEST_TARGET(3)