1CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET(3)       curl_easy_setopt options       CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET(3)
2
3
4

NAME

6       CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET - set EGD socket path
7

SYNOPSIS

9       #include <curl/curl.h>
10
11       CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET, char *path);
12

DESCRIPTION

14       Pass a char * to the null-terminated path name to the Entropy Gathering
15       Daemon socket. It will be used to seed the random engine for SSL.
16
17       The application does not have to keep the string around  after  setting
18       this option.
19

DEFAULT

21       NULL
22

PROTOCOLS

24       All TLS based protocols: HTTPS, FTPS, IMAPS, POP3S, SMTPS etc.
25

EXAMPLE

27       CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
28       if(curl) {
29         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/");
30         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET, "/var/egd.socket");
31         ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);
32         curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
33       }
34

AVAILABILITY

36       If  built  TLS  enabled.  Only the OpenSSL and GnuTLS backends will use
37       this.
38

RETURN VALUE

40       Returns CURLE_OK if TLS is supported, CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if  not,  or
41       CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.
42

SEE ALSO

44       CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE(3),
45
46
47
48libcurl 7.76.1                 November 04, 2020          CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET(3)
Impressum