CURLMOPT_PIPELINING_SERVER_BL(3)

CURLMOPT_PIPELINING_SERVER_BL3

Pipelining server block list

Usage

#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLMcode curl_multi_setopt(CURLM *handle, CURLMOPT_PIPELINING_SERVER_BL,
                            char **servers);

Overview

No function since pipelining was removed in 7.62.0.

Pass a servers array of char *, ending with a NULL entry. This is a list of server types prefixes (in the Server: HTTP header) that are blocked from pipelining, i.e server types that are known to not support HTTP pipelining. The array is copied by libcurl.

Note that the comparison matches if the Server: header begins with the string in the block list, i.e "Server: Ninja 1.2.3" and "Server: Ninja 1.4.0" can both be blocked by having "Ninja" in the list.

Pass a NULL pointer to clear the block list.

Default

NULL, which means that there is no block list.

Protocols

This functionality affects http only

Examples

static const char *server_block_list[] =
{
  "Microsoft-IIS/6.0",
  "nginx/0.8.54",
  NULL
};
int main(void)
{
  CURLM *m = curl_multi_init();
  curl_multi_setopt(m, CURLMOPT_PIPELINING_SERVER_BL, server_block_list);
}

Return value

curl_multi_setopt(3) returns a CURLMcode indicating success or error.

CURLM_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 7.30.0

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