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).
DEFAULT¶
NULL, no User-Agent: header is used by default.
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.