CURLOPT_NOBODY

Section: curl_easy_setopt options (3)
Updated: June 21, 2017
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NAME

CURLOPT_NOBODY - do the download request without getting the body  

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_NOBODY, long opt);  

DESCRIPTION

A long parameter set to 1 tells libcurl to not include the body-part in the output when doing what would otherwise be a download. For HTTP(S), this makes libcurl do a HEAD request. For most other protocols it means just not asking to transfer the body data.

Enabling this option means asking for a download but without a body.  

DEFAULT

0, the body is transferred  

PROTOCOLS

Most  

EXAMPLE

curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com");

  /* get us the resource without a body! */
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 1L);

  /* Perform the request */
  curl_easy_perform(curl);
}

 

AVAILABILITY

Always  

RETURN VALUE

Returns CURLE_OK  

SEE ALSO

CURLOPT_HTTPGET(3), CURLOPT_POST(3), CURLOPT_REQUEST_TARGET(3),

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