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23 .TH CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE 3 "May 31, 2017" "libcurl 7.59.0" "curl_easy_setopt options"
26 CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE \- specify a source for random data
28 #include <curl/curl.h>
30 CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE, char *path);
32 Pass a char * to a zero terminated file name. The file might be used to read
33 from to seed the random engine for SSL and more.
35 The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this
43 CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
45 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/");
46 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE, "junk.txt");
47 ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);
48 curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
54 Returns CURLE_OK on success or
55 CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.
57 .BR CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET "(3), "