CURLOPT_SERVICE_NAME(3)

CURLOPT_SERVICE_NAME3

Authentication service name

Usage

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

Overview

Pass a char pointer as parameter to a string holding the name of the service for DIGEST-MD5, SPNEGO and Kerberos 5 authentication mechanisms. The default service names are "ftp", "HTTP", "imap", "ldap", "pop" and "smtp". This option allows you to change them.

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

Default

See above

Protocols

HTTP, FTP, IMAP, LDAP, POP3 and SMTP

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_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, 7.49.0 for FTP, IMAP, POP3 and SMTP, 7.82.0 for OpenLDAP.

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