CURLOPT_STDERR(3) Library Functions Manual CURLOPT_STDERR(3) NAME CURLOPT_STDERR - redirect stderr to another stream SYNOPSIS #include CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_STDERR, FILE *stream); DESCRIPTION Pass a FILE * as parameter. Tell libcurl to use this stream instead of stderr when showing the progress meter and displaying CURLOPT_VERBOSE(3) data. If you are using libcurl as a Windows DLL, this option causes an exception and a crash in the library since it cannot access a FILE * passed on from the application. A work-around is to instead use CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION(3). DEFAULT stderr PROTOCOLS All EXAMPLE int main(void) { CURL *curl = curl_easy_init(); FILE *filep = fopen("dump", "wb"); if(curl) { curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com"); curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_STDERR, filep); curl_easy_perform(curl); } } AVAILABILITY Always RETURN VALUE Returns CURLE_OK SEE ALSO CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION(3), CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS(3), CURLOPT_VERBOSE(3) libcurl April 26 2024 CURLOPT_STDERR(3)