CURLOPT_ADDRESS_SCOPE(3)

CURLOPT_ADDRESS_SCOPE3

Scope id for ipv6 addresses

Usage

#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_ADDRESS_SCOPE, long scope);

Overview

Pass a long specifying the scope id value to use when connecting to IPv6 addresses.

Default

0

Protocols

This functionality affects all supported protocols

Examples

#include <net/if.h> /* for if_nametoindex() */
int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    CURLcode result;
    long my_scope_id;
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/");
    my_scope_id = if_nametoindex("eth0");
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_ADDRESS_SCOPE, my_scope_id);
    result = curl_easy_perform(curl);
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }
}

Return value

curl_easy_setopt(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). Returns CURLE_BAD_FUNCTION_ARGUMENT if set to a negative value.

Releases

7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 6 times.

  1. 8
  2. 9
  3. 10
  4. 11
  5. 12
  6. 13
  7. Arch

Availability

Added in curl 7.19.0

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