CURLINFO_PROXYAUTH_USED - HTTP proxy authentication method

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION PROTOCOLS EXAMPLE AVAILABILITY RETURN VALUE SEE ALSO

NAME

CURLINFO_PROXYAUTH_USED − HTTP proxy authentication method

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_PROXYAUTH_USED, long *authp);

Pass a pointer to a long to receive a bitmask indicating the authentication method that was used in the previous request done over an HTTP proxy. The meaning of the possible bits is explained in the CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH(3) option for curl_easy_setopt(3).

The returned value has zero or one bit set.

PROTOCOLS

This functionality affects http only

EXAMPLE

int main(void)
{
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
CURLcode result;
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXY, "http://proxy.example");
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH,
CURLAUTH_BASIC | CURLAUTH_DIGEST);
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME, "shrek");
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXYPASSWORD, "swamp");

result = curl_easy_perform(curl);

if(result == CURLE_OK) {
long auth;
result = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_PROXYAUTH_USED, &auth);
if(result == CURLE_OK) {
if(!auth)
printf("No auth used\n");
else {
if(auth == CURLAUTH_DIGEST)
printf("Used Digest proxy authentication\n");
else
printf("Used Basic proxy authentication\n");
}
}
}
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}
}

AVAILABILITY

Added in curl 8.12.0

RETURN VALUE

curl_easy_getinfo(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error.

CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non−zero means an error occurred, see libcurl−errors(3).