CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET(3)       Library Functions Manual       CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET(3)

NAME
       CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET - EGD socket path

SYNOPSIS
       #include <curl/curl.h>

       CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET, char *path);

DESCRIPTION
       Deprecated option. It serves no purpose anymore.

       Pass a char pointer to the null-terminated path name to the Entropy
       Gathering Daemon socket. It is used to seed the random engine for TLS.

       The application does not have to keep the string around after setting
       this option.

DEFAULT
       NULL

PROTOCOLS
       All TLS based protocols: HTTPS, FTPS, IMAPS, POP3S, SMTPS etc.

       This option works only with the following TLS backends: OpenSSL

EXAMPLE
       int main(void)
       {
         CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
         if(curl) {
           CURLcode res;
           curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/");
           curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET, "/var/egd.socket");
           res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
           curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
         }
       }

AVAILABILITY
       Only with OpenSSL versions before 1.1.0.

       This option was deprecated in 7.84.0.

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

SEE ALSO
       CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE(3)

libcurl                          April 26 2024            CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET(3)