CURLOPT_DEBUGDATA(3)

CURLOPT_DEBUGDATA3

Pointer passed to the debug callback

Usage

#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_DEBUGDATA, void *pointer);

Overview

Pass a pointer to whatever you want passed in to your CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION(3) in the last void * argument. This pointer is not used by libcurl, it is only passed to the callback.

Default

NULL

Protocols

This functionality affects all supported protocols

Examples

struct data {
  void *custom;
};
static int my_trace(CURL *handle, curl_infotype type,
                    char *data, size_t size,
                    void *clientp)
{
  struct data *mine = clientp;
  printf("our ptr: %p\n", mine->custom);
  /* output debug info */
  return 0;
}
int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl;
  CURLcode result;
  struct data my_tracedata;
  curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION, my_trace);
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_DEBUGDATA, &my_tracedata);
    /* the DEBUGFUNCTION has no effect until we enable VERBOSE */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1L);
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/");
    result = curl_easy_perform(curl);
    /* always cleanup */
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }
  return 0;
}

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).

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 7.9.6

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