c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, daniel@haxx.se, et al. SPDX-License-Identifier: curl Title: CURLOPT_INTERFACE Section: 3 Source: libcurl Protocol:
CURLOPT_INTERFACE - source interface for outgoing traffic
#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_INTERFACE, char *interface);
Pass a char pointer as parameter. This sets the interface name to use as outgoing network interface. The name can be an interface name, an IP address, or a hostname. If you prefer one of these, you can use the following special prefixes:
if!\<name\>
- Interface namehost!\<name\>
- IP address or hostnameifhost!\<interface\>!\<host\>
- Interface name and IP address or hostnameIf if!
or ifhost!
is specified but the parameter does not match an existing
interface, CURLE_INTERFACE_FAILED is returned from the libcurl function used
to perform the transfer.
libcurl does not support using network interface names for this option on Windows.
We strongly advise against specifying the interface with a hostname, as it causes libcurl to do a blocking name resolve call to retrieve the IP address. That name resolve operation does not use DNS-over-HTTPS even if CURLOPT_DOH_URL(3) is set.
The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this option.
Using this option multiple times makes the last set string override the previous ones. Set it to NULL to disable its use again.
NULL, use whatever the TCP stack finds suitable
int main(void)
{
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
CURLcode res;
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/foo.bin");
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_INTERFACE, "eth0");
res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}
}
The if!
and host!
syntax was added in 7.24.0.
The ifhost!
syntax was added in 8.9.0.
Returns CURLE_OK on success or CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.