www.LinuxHowtos.org

CURLOPT_NETRC

Section: curl_easy_setopt options (3)
Updated: August 02, 2017
Index Return to Main Contents

NAME

CURLOPT_NETRC - request that .netrc is used

SYNOPSIS

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_NETRC, long level);

DESCRIPTION

This parameter controls the preference level of libcurl between using user names and passwords from your ~/.netrc file, relative to user names and passwords in the URL supplied with CURLOPT_URL(3). On Windows, libcurl will use the file as %HOME%/_netrc, but you can also tell libcurl a different file name to use with CURLOPT_NETRC_FILE(3).

libcurl uses a user name (and supplied or prompted password) supplied with CURLOPT_USERPWD(3) or CURLOPT_USERNAME(3) in preference to any of the options controlled by this parameter.

Only machine name, user name and password are taken into account (init macros and similar things aren't supported).

libcurl does not verify that the file has the correct properties set (as the standard Unix ftp client does). It should only be readable by user.

level should be set to one of the values described below.

CURL_NETRC_OPTIONAL: The use of your ~/.netrc file is optional, and information in the URL is to be preferred. The file will be scanned for the host and user name (to find the password only) or for the host only, to find the first user name and password after that machine, which ever information is not specified in the URL.
Undefined values of the option will have this effect.
CURL_NETRC_IGNORED: The library will ignore the file and use only the information in the URL.
This is the default.
CURL_NETRC_REQUIRED: This value tells the library that use of the file is required, to ignore the information in the URL, and to search the file for the host only.

DEFAULT

CURL_NETRC_IGNORED

PROTOCOLS

Most

EXAMPLE

CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
  CURLcode ret;
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "ftp://example.com/");
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NETRC, CURL_NETRC_OPTIONAL);
  ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);
}

AVAILABILITY

Always

RETURN VALUE

Returns CURLE_OK