CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE(3)

CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE3

File to read random data from

Usage

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

Overview

Deprecated option. It serves no purpose anymore.

Default

NULL, not used

Deprecated

Deprecated since 7.84.0.

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 7.7

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