CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET(3)

1CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET(3)       curl_easy_setopt options       CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET(3)
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NAME

6       CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET - EGD socket path
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SYNOPSIS

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

14       Deprecated option. It serves no purpose anymore.
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16       Pass a char * to the null-terminated path name to the Entropy Gathering
17       Daemon socket. It will be used to seed the random engine for TLS.
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19       The application does not have to keep the string around  after  setting
20       this option.
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DEFAULT

23       NULL
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PROTOCOLS

26       All TLS based protocols: HTTPS, FTPS, IMAPS, POP3S, SMTPS etc.
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EXAMPLE

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

38       If  built with TLS enabled. Only the OpenSSL backend will use this, and
39       only with OpenSSL versions before 1.1.0.
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41       This option was deprecated in 7.84.0.
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RETURN VALUE

44       Returns CURLE_OK if TLS is supported, CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if  not,  or
45       CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.
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