curl_url_dup(3)

curl_url_dup3

Duplicate a url handle

Usage

#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLU *curl_url_dup(const CURLU *inhandle);

Overview

Duplicates the URL object the input CURLU inhandle identifies and returns a pointer to the copy as a new CURLU handle. The new handle also needs to be freed with curl_url_cleanup(3).

Protocols

This functionality affects all supported protocols

Examples

int main(void)
{
  CURLUcode rc;
  CURLU *url = curl_url();
  CURLU *url2;
  rc = curl_url_set(url, CURLUPART_URL, "https://example.com", 0);
  if(!rc) {
    url2 = curl_url_dup(url); /* clone it */
    curl_url_cleanup(url2);
  }
  curl_url_cleanup(url);
}

Return value

Returns a pointer to a new CURLU handle or NULL if out of memory or if inhandle is NULL.

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.