CURLOPT_HTTPGET(3)

CURLOPT_HTTPGET(3)  curl_easy_setopt options   CURLOPT_HTTPGET(3)

NAME

     CURLOPT_HTTPGET - ask for a HTTP GET request

SYNOPSIS

     #include <curl/curl.h>

     CURLcode  curl_easy_setopt(CURL  *handle,   CURLOPT_HTTPGET,
     long useget);

DESCRIPTION

     Pass a long. If useget is 1, this forces the HTTP request to
     get  back to using GET. Usable if a POST, HEAD, PUT, etc has
     been used previously using the same curl handle.

     When setting CURLOPT_HTTPGET(3) to 1, it will  automatically
     set CURLOPT_NOBODY(3) to 0 and CURLOPT_UPLOAD(3) to 0.

DEFAULT

     0

PROTOCOLS

     HTTP(S)

EXAMPLE

     curl = curl_easy_init();
     if(curl) {
       curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com");

       /* use a GET to fetch this */
       curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, 1L);

       /* Perform the request */
       curl_easy_perform(curl);
     }

AVAILABILITY

     Along with HTTP

RETURN VALUE

     Returns    CURLE_OK    if    HTTP    is    supported,    and
     CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.

SEE ALSO

     CURLOPT_NOBODY(3), CURLOPT_UPLOAD(3),

libcurl 7.58.0   Last change: February 03, 2016                 1