CURLOPT_SSH_HOST_PUBLIC_KEY_SHA256(3)

CURLOPT_SSH_HOST_PUBLIC_KEY_SHA2563

Sha256 hash of ssh server public key

Usage

#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_SSH_HOST_PUBLIC_KEY_SHA256,
                          char *sha256);

Overview

Pass a char pointer pointing to a string containing a Base64-encoded SHA256 hash of the remote host's public key. The transfer fails if the given hash does not match the hash the remote host provides.

Default

NULL

Protocols

SCP and SFTP

Examples

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    CURLcode res;
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "sftp://example.com/file");
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSH_HOST_PUBLIC_KEY_SHA256,
                     "NDVkMTQxMGQ1ODdmMjQ3MjczYjAyOTY5MmRkMjVmNDQ=");
    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
    curl_easy_cleanup(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

25 releases since macOS 13.1; the text changed 6 times.

  1. 13.1
  2. 13.2
  3. 13.3
  4. 13.4
  5. 13.5–14.1
  6. 14.2–14.4
  7. 14.5–26.5

Availability

Added in 7.80.0 Requires the libssh2 backend.

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