CURLOPT_SOCKS5_GSSAPI_SERVICE(3)

CURLOPT_SOCKS5_GSSAPI_SERVICE3

Socks5 proxy authentication service name

Usage

#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_SOCKS5_GSSAPI_SERVICE,
                          char *name);

Overview

Deprecated. Use CURLOPT_PROXY_SERVICE_NAME(3) instead.

Pass a char pointer as parameter to a string holding the name of the service. The default service name for a SOCKS5 server is rcmd. 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

This functionality affects all supported protocols

Examples

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    CURLcode result;
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/");
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXY, "socks5://proxy");
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SOCKS5_GSSAPI_SERVICE, "rcmd-special");
    result = curl_easy_perform(curl);
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }
}

Deprecated

Deprecated since 7.49.0

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 7.19.4

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