.\" ************************************************************************** .\" * _ _ ____ _ .\" * Project ___| | | | _ \| | .\" * / __| | | | |_) | | .\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ .\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| .\" * .\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2021, Daniel Stenberg, , et al. .\" * .\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which .\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms .\" * are also available at https://curl.se/docs/copyright.html. .\" * .\" * You may opt to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute and/or sell .\" * copies of the Software, and permit persons to whom the Software is .\" * furnished to do so, under the terms of the COPYING file. .\" * .\" * This software is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY .\" * KIND, either express or implied. .\" * .\" ************************************************************************** .\" .TH CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL 3 "28 Aug 2015" "libcurl 7.44.0" "curl_easy_getinfo options" .SH NAME CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL \- get the last used URL .SH SYNOPSIS .nf #include CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL, char **urlp); .fi .SH DESCRIPTION Pass in a pointer to a char pointer and get the last used effective URL. In cases when you have asked libcurl to follow redirects, it may not be the same value you set with \fICURLOPT_URL(3)\fP. The \fBurlp\fP pointer will be NULL or pointing to private memory you MUST NOT free - it gets freed when you call \fIcurl_easy_cleanup(3)\fP on the corresponding CURL handle. .SH PROTOCOLS HTTP(S) .SH EXAMPLE .nf CURL *curl = curl_easy_init(); if(curl) { CURLcode res; curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com"); curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L); res = curl_easy_perform(curl); if(res == CURLE_OK) { char *url = NULL; curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL, &url); if(url) printf("Redirect to: %s\\n", url); } curl_easy_cleanup(curl); } .fi .SH AVAILABILITY Added in 7.4 .SH RETURN VALUE Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not. .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR curl_easy_getinfo "(3), " curl_easy_setopt "(3), "