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 * to the null-terminated path name to the Entropy Gathering Daemon socket. It will be 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.

EXAMPLE

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


  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/");


  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET, "/var/egd.socket");


  ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);


  curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}

AVAILABILITY

If built with TLS enabled. Only the OpenSSL backend will use this, and 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.