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CURLINFO_REDIRECT_COUNT - number of redirects

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  PROTOCOLS  EXAMPLE  AVAILABILITY  RETURN VALUE  SEE ALSO 

NAME

CURLINFO_REDIRECT_COUNT − number of redirects

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_REDIRECT_COUNT,
long *countp);

DESCRIPTION

Pass a pointer to a long to receive the total number of redirections that were actually followed.

PROTOCOLS

This functionality affects all supported protocols

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_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L);
result = curl_easy_perform(curl);
if(result == CURLE_OK) {
long redirects;
curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_REDIRECT_COUNT, &redirects);
}
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}
}

AVAILABILITY

Added in curl 7.9.7

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).

SEE ALSO

CURLINFO_REDIRECT_URL(3), CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION(3), curl_easy_getinfo(3), curl_easy_setopt(3)


Updated 2026-06-01 - jenkler.se | uex.se