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CURLOPT_HTTPGET(3)					     curl_easy_setopt options						CURLOPT_HTTPGET(3)

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 previ-
       ously 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),

libcurl 7.54.0							 February 03, 2016						CURLOPT_HTTPGET(3)