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

• CURLINFO_PRIMARY_IP (3)
• CURLINFO_PRIMARY_PORT (3)
• CURLOPT_PREREQFUNCTION (3)

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NAME

CURLOPT_PREREQDATA - pointer passed to the pre-request callback

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

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

DESCRIPTION

Pass a pointer that is untouched by libcurl and passed as the first argument in the pre-request callback set with CURLOPT_PREREQFUNCTION(3).

DEFAULT

NULL

PROTOCOLS

All

EXAMPLE

struct priv {
  void *custom;
};

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:%d\n", conn_primary_ip, conn_primary_port);
  return CURL_PREREQFUNC_OK;
}

int main(void)
{
  struct priv prereq_data;
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PREREQFUNCTION, prereq_callback);
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PREREQDATA, &prereq_data);
    curl_easy_perform(curl);
  }
}

AVAILABILITY

Added in 7.80.0

RETURN VALUE

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