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CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD(3) curl_easy_setopt options CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD(3)

CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD - user name and password to use for proxy authentication

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, char *userpwd);

Pass a char * as parameter, which should be [user name]:[password] to use for the connection to the HTTP proxy. Both the name and the password will be URL decoded before use, so to include for example a colon in the user name you should encode it as %3A. (This is different to how CURLOPT_USERPWD(3) is used - beware.)

Use CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH(3) to specify the authentication method.

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

This is NULL by default.

Used with all protocols that can use a proxy

CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {

curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com/foo.bin");
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXY, "http://localhost:8080");
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, "clark%20kent:superman");
ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);
curl_easy_cleanup(curl); }

Always

Returns CURLE_OK if proxies are supported, CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not, or CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.

CURLOPT_PROXY(3), CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE(3),

May 30, 2017 libcurl 7.64.0