CURLOPT_RTSP_CLIENT_CSEQ(3)

CURLOPT_RTSP_CLIENT_CSEQ3

Rtsp client cseq number

Usage

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

Overview

Pass a long to set the CSEQ number to issue for the next RTSP request. Useful if the application is resuming a previously broken connection. The CSEQ increments from this new number henceforth.

Default

0

Protocols

This functionality affects rtsp only

Examples

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    CURLcode result;
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "rtsp://example.com/");
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_RTSP_CLIENT_CSEQ, 1234L);
    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).

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 7.20.0

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