CURLOPT_IPRESOLVE - IP protocol version to use
#include <curl/curl.h> CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_IPRESOLVE, long resolve);
CURLOPT_IPRESOLVE(3) curl_easy_setopt options CURLOPT_IPRESOLVE(3)
NAME
CURLOPT_IPRESOLVE - IP protocol version to use
SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_IPRESOLVE, long resolve);
DESCRIPTION
Allows an application to select what kind of IP addresses to use when
establishing a connection or choosing one from the connection pool.
This is interesting when using host names that resolve addresses using
more than one version of IP. The allowed values are:
CURL_IPRESOLVE_WHATEVER
Default, can use addresses of all IP versions that your system
allows.
CURL_IPRESOLVE_V4
Uses only IPv4 addresses.
CURL_IPRESOLVE_V6
Uses only IPv6 addresses.
DEFAULT
CURL_IPRESOLVE_WHATEVER
PROTOCOLS
All
EXAMPLE
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/foo.bin");
/* of all addresses example.com resolves to, only IPv6 ones are used */
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_IPRESOLVE, CURL_IPRESOLVE_V6);
ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}
AVAILABILITY
Always
RETURN VALUE
Returns CURLE_OK
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | web/curl |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+------------------+
SEE ALSO
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION(3), CURLOPT_SSLVERSION(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 CURLOPT_IPRESOLVE(3)