CURLINFO_REDIRECT_COUNT(3)

CURLINFO_REDIRECT_COUNT3

Get the number of redirects

Usage

#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_REDIRECT_COUNT,
                           long *countp);

Overview

Pass a pointer to a long to receive the total number of redirections that were actually followed.

Protocols

HTTP(S)

Examples

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    CURLcode res;
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L);
    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
    if(res == CURLE_OK) {
      long redirects;
      curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_REDIRECT_COUNT, &redirects);
    }
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }
}

Return value

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

Releases

66 releases since macOS 10.12; the text changed 12 times.

  1. 10.12–10.12.5
  2. 10.12.6–10.14.6
  3. 10.15–11.5
  4. 12.0.1–12.2
  5. 12.3–12.5
  6. 13.0
  7. 13.1
  8. 13.2
  9. 13.3
  10. 13.4
  11. 13.5–14.1
  12. 14.2–14.4
  13. 14.5–26.5

Availability

Added in 7.9.7

From curl 166.0.0.0.1 in macOS 26.5. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.