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CURLOPT_PRIVATE 3 "17 Jun 2014" "libcurl 7.37.0" "curl_easy_setopt options"
NAME
CURLOPT_PRIVATE - store a private pointer
SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h> CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_PRIVATE, void *pointer);
DESCRIPTION
Pass a void * as parameter, pointing to data that should be associated with this curl handle. The pointer can subsequently be retrieved using curl_easy_getinfo(3) with the CURLINFO_PRIVATE option. libcurl itself never does nothing with this data.
DEFAULT
NULL
PROTOCOLS
All
EXAMPLE
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
struct private secrets;
if(curl) {
 struct private *extracted;
 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com");

 /* store a pointer to our private struct */
 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PRIVATE, &secrets);

 curl_easy_perform(curl);

 /* we can extract the private pointer again too */
 curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_PRIVATE, &extracted);
}
AVAILABILITY
Added in 7.10.3
RETURN VALUE
Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.
"SEE ALSO"
CURLOPT_VERBOSE "(3), " CURLOPT_STDERR "(3), "