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53 <p class="level0"><a name="NAME"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">NAME</h2>
54 <p class="level0">CURLOPT_PRIVATE - store a private pointer <a name="SYNOPSIS"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">SYNOPSIS</h2>
55 <p class="level0">#include <curl/curl.h>
56 <p class="level0">CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_PRIVATE, void *pointer); <a name="DESCRIPTION"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">DESCRIPTION</h2>
57 <p class="level0">Pass a void * as parameter, pointing to data that should be associated with this curl handle. The pointer can subsequently be retrieved using <span Class="emphasis">curl_easy_getinfo(3)</span> with the CURLINFO_PRIVATE option. libcurl itself never does nothing with this data. <a name="DEFAULT"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">DEFAULT</h2>
58 <p class="level0">NULL <a name="PROTOCOLS"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">PROTOCOLS</h2>
59 <p class="level0">All <a name="EXAMPLE"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">EXAMPLE</h2>
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61 CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
62 struct private secrets;
64 struct private *extracted;
65 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com");
67 /* store a pointer to our private struct */
68 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PRIVATE, &secrets);
70 curl_easy_perform(curl);
72 /* we can extract the private pointer again too */
73 curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_PRIVATE, &extracted);
77 <p class="level0"><a name="AVAILABILITY"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">AVAILABILITY</h2>
78 <p class="level0">Added in 7.10.3 <a name="RETURN"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">RETURN VALUE</h2>
79 <p class="level0">Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not. <a name="SEE"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">SEE ALSO</h2>
80 <p class="level0"><a Class="manpage" href="./CURLOPT_VERBOSE.html">CURLOPT_VERBOSE</a>, <a Class="manpage" href="./CURLOPT_STDERR.html">CURLOPT_STDERR</a><p class="roffit">
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