CURLOPT_CONNECT_TO.md (3833B)
1 --- 2 c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 3 SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4 Title: CURLOPT_CONNECT_TO 5 Section: 3 6 Source: libcurl 7 See-also: 8 - CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION (3) 9 - CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL (3) 10 - CURLOPT_RESOLVE (3) 11 - CURLOPT_URL (3) 12 Protocol: 13 - All 14 Added-in: 7.49.0 15 --- 16 17 # NAME 18 19 CURLOPT_CONNECT_TO - connect to another host and port instead 20 21 # SYNOPSIS 22 23 ~~~c 24 #include <curl/curl.h> 25 26 CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_CONNECT_TO, 27 struct curl_slist *connect_to); 28 ~~~ 29 30 # DESCRIPTION 31 32 Pass a pointer to a linked list of strings with "connect to" information to 33 use for establishing network connections with this handle. The linked list 34 should be a fully valid list of **struct curl_slist** structs properly filled 35 in. Use curl_slist_append(3) to create the list and curl_slist_free_all(3) to 36 clean up an entire list. 37 38 Each single string should be written using the format 39 HOST:PORT:CONNECT-TO-HOST:CONNECT-TO-PORT where HOST is the host of the 40 request, PORT is the port of the request, CONNECT-TO-HOST is the hostname to 41 connect to, and CONNECT-TO-PORT is the port to connect to. 42 43 The first string that matches the request's host and port is used. 44 45 Dotted numerical IP addresses are supported for HOST and CONNECT-TO-HOST. 46 A numerical IPv6 address must be written within [brackets]. 47 48 Any of the four values may be empty. When the HOST or PORT is empty, the host 49 or port always match (the request's host or port is ignored). When 50 CONNECT-TO-HOST or CONNECT-TO-PORT is empty, the "connect to" feature is 51 disabled for the host or port, and the request's host or port are used to 52 establish the network connection. 53 54 This option is suitable to direct the request at a specific server, e.g. at a 55 specific cluster node in a cluster of servers. 56 57 The "connect to" host and port are only used to establish the network 58 connection. They do NOT affect the host and port that are used for TLS/SSL 59 (e.g. SNI, certificate verification) or for the application protocols. 60 61 In contrast to CURLOPT_RESOLVE(3), the option CURLOPT_CONNECT_TO(3) does not 62 pre-populate the DNS cache and therefore it does not affect future transfers 63 of other easy handles that have been added to the same multi handle. 64 65 The "connect to" host and port are ignored if they are equal to the host and 66 the port in the request URL, because connecting to the host and the port in 67 the request URL is the default behavior. 68 69 If an HTTP proxy is used for a request having a special "connect to" host or 70 port, and the "connect to" host or port differs from the request's host and 71 port, the HTTP proxy is automatically switched to tunnel mode for this 72 specific request. This is necessary because it is not possible to connect to a 73 specific host or port in normal (non-tunnel) mode. 74 75 When this option is passed to curl_easy_setopt(3), libcurl does not copy the 76 list so you **must** keep it around until you no longer use this *handle* for 77 a transfer before you call curl_slist_free_all(3) on the list. 78 79 Using this option multiple times makes the last set list override the previous 80 ones. Set it to NULL to disable its use again. 81 82 # DEFAULT 83 84 NULL 85 86 # %PROTOCOLS% 87 88 # EXAMPLE 89 90 ~~~c 91 int main(void) 92 { 93 CURL *curl; 94 struct curl_slist *connect_to = NULL; 95 connect_to = curl_slist_append(NULL, "example.com::server1.example.com:"); 96 97 curl = curl_easy_init(); 98 if(curl) { 99 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_CONNECT_TO, connect_to); 100 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com"); 101 102 curl_easy_perform(curl); 103 104 /* always cleanup */ 105 curl_easy_cleanup(curl); 106 } 107 108 curl_slist_free_all(connect_to); 109 } 110 ~~~ 111 112 # %AVAILABILITY% 113 114 # RETURN VALUE 115 116 curl_easy_setopt(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error. 117 118 CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error occurred, see 119 libcurl-errors(3).