mojave man page for curlopt_useragent

Query: curlopt_useragent

OS: mojave

Section: 3

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CURLOPT_USERAGENT(3)					     curl_easy_setopt options					      CURLOPT_USERAGENT(3)

NAME
CURLOPT_USERAGENT - set HTTP user-agent header
SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h> CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, char *ua);
DESCRIPTION
Pass a pointer to a zero terminated string as parameter. It will be used to set the User-Agent: header in the HTTP request sent to the remote server. This can be used to fool servers or scripts. You can also set any custom header with CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3). The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this option.
DEFAULT
NULL, no User-Agent: header is used by default.
PROTOCOLS
HTTP, HTTPS
EXAMPLE
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init(); if(curl) { curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com"); curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Dark Secret Ninja/1.0"); curl_easy_perform(curl); }
AVAILABILITY
As long as HTTP is supported
RETURN VALUE
Returns CURLE_OK if HTTP is supported, CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not, or CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.
SEE ALSO
CURLOPT_REFERER(3), CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3), libcurl 7.54.0 December 21, 2016 CURLOPT_USERAGENT(3)
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