curl_url(3)

curl_url3

Create a url handle

Usage

#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLU *curl_url();

Overview

This function allocates a URL object and returns a CURLU handle for it, to be used as input to all other URL API functions.

This is a handle to a URL object that holds or can hold URL components for a single URL. When the object is first created, there is of course no components stored. They are then set in the object with the curl_url_set(3) function.

The object must be destroyed with a call to curl_url_cleanup(3) when no longer needed.

Protocols

This functionality affects all supported protocols

Examples

int main(void)
{
  CURLUcode rc;
  CURLU *url = curl_url();
  rc = curl_url_set(url, CURLUPART_URL, "https://example.com", 0);
  if(!rc) {
    char *scheme;
    rc = curl_url_get(url, CURLUPART_SCHEME, &scheme, 0);
    if(!rc) {
      printf("the scheme is %s\n", scheme);
      curl_free(scheme);
    }
    curl_url_cleanup(url);
  }
}

Return value

Returns a CURLU * if successful, or NULL if out of memory.

Releases

5 releases since Debian 10 (Buster); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 10
  2. 11
  3. 12
  4. 13
  5. Arch

Availability

Added in curl 7.62.0

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