CURLOPT_NOBODY - do the download request without getting the body

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  DEFAULT  PROTOCOLS  EXAMPLE  AVAILABILITY  RETURN VALUE  SEE ALSO 

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NAME

CURLOPT_NOBODY − do the download request without getting the body

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_NOBODY, long opt);

DESCRIPTION

A long parameter set to 1 tells libcurl to not include the body−part in the output when doing what would otherwise be a download. For HTTP(S), this makes libcurl do a HEAD request. For most other protocols it means not asking to transfer the body data.

For HTTP operations when CURLOPT_NOBODY(3) has been set, disabling this option (with 0) makes it a GET again − only if the method is still set to be HEAD. The proper way to get back to a GET request is to set CURLOPT_HTTPGET(3) and for other methods, use the POST or UPLOAD options.

Enabling CURLOPT_NOBODY(3) means asking for a download without a body.

If you do a transfer with HTTP that involves a method other than HEAD, you get a body (unless the resource and server sends a zero byte body for the specific URL you request).

DEFAULT

0, the body is transferred

PROTOCOLS

This functionality affects all supported protocols

EXAMPLE

int main(void)
{
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");

/* get us the resource without a body - use HEAD */
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 1L);

/* Perform the request */
curl_easy_perform(curl);
}
}

AVAILABILITY

Added in curl 7.1

RETURN VALUE

curl_easy_setopt(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

CURLOPT_HTTPGET(3), CURLOPT_MIMEPOST(3), CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS(3), CURLOPT_REQUEST_TARGET(3), CURLOPT_UPLOAD(3)

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