curl_easy_init - Start a libcurl easy session
#include <curl/curl.h> CURL *curl_easy_init();
curl_easy_init(3) libcurl Manual curl_easy_init(3)
NAME
curl_easy_init - Start a libcurl easy session
SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h>
CURL *curl_easy_init();
DESCRIPTION
This function must be the first function to call, and it returns a CURL
easy handle that you must use as input to other functions in the easy
interface. This call MUST have a corresponding call to
curl_easy_cleanup(3) when the operation is complete.
If you did not already call curl_global_init(3), curl_easy_init(3) does
it automatically. This may be lethal in multi-threaded cases, since
curl_global_init(3) is not thread-safe, and it may result in resource
problems because there is no corresponding cleanup.
You are strongly advised to not allow this automatic behavior, by call-
ing curl_global_init(3) yourself properly. See the description in
libcurl(3) of global environment requirements for details of how to use
this function.
EXAMPLE
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
CURLcode res;
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}
AVAILABILITY
Always
RETURN VALUE
If this function returns NULL, something went wrong and you cannot use
the other curl functions.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | web/curl |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+------------------+
SEE ALSO
curl_easy_cleanup(3), curl_global_init(3), curl_easy_reset(3),
curl_easy_perform(3)
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from https://curl.se/down-
load/curl-7.83.1.tar.bz2.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at http://curl.haxx.se/.
libcurl 7.83.1 November 26, 2021 curl_easy_init(3)