CURLOPT_PROXYPASSWORD(3)

CURLOPT_PROXYPASSWORD3

Password to use with proxy authentication

Usage

#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_PROXYPASSWORD, char *pwd);

Overview

Pass a char pointer as parameter, which should be pointing to the null-terminated password to use for authentication with the proxy.

The CURLOPT_PROXYPASSWORD(3) option should be used in conjunction with the CURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME(3) option.

The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this option.

Default

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Protocols

Most

Examples

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    CURLcode res;
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/foo.bin");
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXY, "http://localhost:8080");
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME, "mrsmith");
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXYPASSWORD, "qwerty");
    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }
}

Return value

Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not, or CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.

Releases

79 releases since OS X 10.10; the text changed 14 times.

  1. 10.10–10.10.4
  2. 10.10.5–10.11.6
  3. 10.12–10.12.5
  4. 10.12.6–10.14.6
  5. 10.15–11.5
  6. 12.0.1–12.2
  7. 12.3–12.5
  8. 13.0
  9. 13.1
  10. 13.2
  11. 13.3
  12. 13.4
  13. 13.5–14.1
  14. 14.2–14.4
  15. 14.5–26.5

Availability

Added in 7.19.1

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