NAME¶

CURLOPT_SSH_HOSTKEYDATA - pointer to pass to the SSH hostkey callback

SYNOPSIS¶

#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_SSH_HOSTKEYDATA, void *pointer);

DESCRIPTION¶

Pass a void * as parameter. This pointer will be passed along verbatim to the callback set with CURLOPT_SSH_HOSTKEYFUNCTION(3).

DEFAULT¶

NULL

PROTOCOLS¶

SCP and SFTP

EXAMPLE¶

int hostkeycb(void *clientp,    /* passed with CURLOPT_SSH_HOSTKEYDATA */


              int keytype,      /* CURLKHTYPE */


              const char * key, /*hostkey to check*/


              size_t keylen);   /*length of the key*/
{


  /* 'clientp' points to the callback_data struct */


  /* investigate the situation and return the correct value */


  return CURLKHMATCH_OK;
}
{


  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "sftp://example.com/thisfile.txt");


  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSH_HOSTKEYFUNCTION, hostkeycb);


  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSH_HOSTKEYDATA, &callback_data);


  curl_easy_perform(curl);
}

AVAILABILITY¶

Added in 7.84.0, works only with libssh2 backend.

RETURN VALUE¶

Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.

SEE ALSO¶

CURLOPT_SSH_HOSTKEYFUNCTION(3),