1 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
2 "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
4 <title>CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS man page</title>
5 <meta name="generator" content="roffit">
6 <STYLE type="text/css">
32 background-color: #e0e0e0;
38 font-family: monospace;
48 <p class="level0"><a name="NAME"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">NAME</h2>
49 <p class="level0">CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS - maximum number of redirects allowed <a name="SYNOPSIS"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">SYNOPSIS</h2>
50 <p class="level0">#include <curl/curl.h>
51 <p class="level0">CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, long amount); <a name="DESCRIPTION"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">DESCRIPTION</h2>
52 <p class="level0">Pass a long. The set number will be the redirection limit <span Class="emphasis">amount</span>. If that many redirections have been followed, the next redirect will cause an error (<span Class="emphasis">CURLE_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS</span>). This option only makes sense if the <a Class="emphasis" href="./CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION.html">CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION</a> is used at the same time.
53 <p class="level0">Setting the limit to 0 will make libcurl refuse any redirect.
54 <p class="level0">Set it to -1 for an infinite number of redirects. <a name="DEFAULT"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">DEFAULT</h2>
55 <p class="level0">-1, unlimited <a name="PROTOCOLS"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">PROTOCOLS</h2>
56 <p class="level0">HTTP(S) <a name="EXAMPLE"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">EXAMPLE</h2>
57 <p class="level0"><pre>
58 <p class="level0">curl = curl_easy_init();
60 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "<a href="http://example.com/">http://example.com/</a>");
61 <p class="level0"> /* enable redirect following */
62 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L);
63 <p class="level0"> /* allow three redirects */
64 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 3L);
65 <p class="level0"> /* Perform the request */
66 curl_easy_perform(curl);
70 <p class="level0"><a name="AVAILABILITY"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">AVAILABILITY</h2>
71 <p class="level0">Along with HTTP <a name="RETURN"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">RETURN VALUE</h2>
72 <p class="level0">Returns CURLE_OK if HTTP is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not. <a name="SEE"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">SEE ALSO</h2>
73 <p class="level0"><a Class="manpage" href="./CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION.html">CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION</a>, <span Class="manpage"> </span> <p class="roffit">
74 This HTML page was made with <a href="http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/roffit/">roffit</a>.