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CURLOPT_HTTPGET 3 "17 Jun 2014" "libcurl 7.37.0" "curl_easy_setopt options"
NAME
CURLOPT_HTTPGET - ask for a HTTP GET request
SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h> CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, long useget);
DESCRIPTION
Pass a long. If useget is 1, this forces the HTTP request to get back to using GET. Usable if a POST, HEAD, PUT, etc has been used previously using the same curl handle. When setting CURLOPT_HTTPGET(3) to 1, it will automatically set CURLOPT_NOBODY(3) to 0 and CURLOPT_UPLOAD(3) to 0.
DEFAULT
0
PROTOCOLS
HTTP(S)
EXAMPLE
curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com");

 /* use a GET to fetch this */ 
 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, 1L);

 /* Perform the request */ 
 curl_easy_perform(curl);
}
AVAILABILITY
Along with HTTP
RETURN VALUE
Returns CURLE_OK if HTTP is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.
"SEE ALSO"
CURLOPT_NOBODY "(3), " CURLOPT_UPLOAD "(3), "