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c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel.se>, et al. SPDX-License-Identifier: curl Title: CURLOPT_DEBUGDATA Section: 3 Source: libcurl See-also:

• CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION (3)
• CURLOPT_STDERR (3)

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NAME

CURLOPT_DEBUGDATA - pointer passed to the debug callback

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_DEBUGDATA, void *pointer);

DESCRIPTION

Pass a pointer to whatever you want passed in to your CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION(3) in the last void * argument. This pointer is not used by libcurl, it is only passed to the callback.

DEFAULT

NULL

PROTOCOLS

All

EXAMPLE

struct data {
  void *custom;
};

static int my_trace(CURL *handle, curl_infotype type,
                    char *data, size_t size,
                    void *clientp)
{
  struct data *mine = clientp;
  printf("our ptr: %p\n", mine->custom);

  /* output debug info */
}

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl;
  CURLcode res;
  struct data my_tracedata;

  curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION, my_trace);

    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_DEBUGDATA, &my_tracedata);

    /* the DEBUGFUNCTION has no effect until we enable VERBOSE */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1L);

    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/");
    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);

    /* always cleanup */
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }
  return 0;
}

AVAILABILITY

Always

RETURN VALUE

Returns CURLE_OK