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23 .TH CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET 3 "17 Jun 2014" "libcurl 7.37.0" "curl_easy_setopt options"
25 CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET \- set EGD socket path
27 #include <curl/curl.h>
29 CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET, char *path);
31 Pass a char * to the zero terminated path name to the Entropy Gathering Daemon
32 socket. It will be used to seed the random engine for SSL.
36 All TLS based protocols: HTTPS, FTPS, IMAPS, POP3S, SMTPS etc.
40 If built TLS enabled. Only the OpenSSL and GnuTLS backends will use this.
42 Returns CURLE_OK if TLS is supported, CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not, or
43 CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.
45 .BR CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE "(3), "