CURLOPT_PROXY_SERVICE_NAME(3)

CURLOPT_PROXY_SERVICE_NAME3

Proxy authentication service name

Usage

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

Overview

Pass a char pointer as parameter to a string holding the name of the service. The default service name is "HTTP" for HTTP based proxies and "rcmd" for SOCKS5. This option allows you to change it.

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

Default

See above

Protocols

All network protocols

Examples

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    CURLcode ret;
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/");
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXY_SERVICE_NAME, "custom");
    ret = curl_easy_perform(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

74 releases since OS X 10.10.5; the text changed 13 times.

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

Availability

Added in 7.43.0 for HTTP proxies, 7.49.0 for SOCKS5 proxies.

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