CURLINFO_RTSP_SESSION_ID(3)

CURLINFO_RTSP_SESSION_ID3

Rtsp session id

Usage

#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_RTSP_SESSION_ID, char **id);

Overview

Pass a pointer to a char pointer to receive a pointer to a string holding the most recent RTSP Session ID.

Applications wishing to resume an RTSP session on another connection should retrieve this info before closing the active connection.

The id pointer is NULL or points to private memory. You must not free it. The memory gets freed automatically when you call curl_easy_cleanup(3) on the corresponding curl handle.

Protocols

This functionality affects rtsp only

Examples

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    CURLcode result;
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "rtsp://rtsp.example.com");
    result = curl_easy_perform(curl);
    if(result == CURLE_OK) {
      char *id;
      curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_RTSP_SESSION_ID, &id);
    }
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }
}

Return value

curl_easy_getinfo(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error.

CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error occurred, see libcurl-errors(3).

Releases

6 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 9
  2. 10
  3. 11
  4. 12
  5. 13
  6. Arch

Availability

Added in curl 7.20.0

From curl 8.23.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.