curlopt_useragent(3)

CURLOPT_USERAGENT – set HTTP user-agent header

Synopsis

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, char *ua);

Description

Pass a pointer to a zero terminated string as parameter. It will be used to set the User-Agent: header in the HTTP request sent to the remote server. This can be used to fool servers or scripts. You can also set any custom header with CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3).

Default

NULL, no User-Agent: header is used by default.

Protocols

HTTP, HTTPS

Example

TODO

Availability

As long as HTTP is supported

Return Value

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