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23 .TH CURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME 3 "May 30, 2017" "libcurl 7.59.0" "curl_easy_setopt options"
26 CURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME \- user name to use for proxy authentication
29 #include <curl/curl.h>
31 CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME,
34 Pass a char * as parameter, which should be pointing to the zero terminated
35 user name to use for the transfer.
37 \fICURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME(3)\fP sets the user name to be used in protocol
38 authentication with the proxy.
40 To specify the proxy password use the \fICURLOPT_PROXYPASSWORD(3)\fP.
42 The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this
50 CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
52 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com/foo.bin");
53 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXY, "http://localhost:8080");
54 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME, "mrsmith");
55 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXYPASSWORD, "qwerty");
56 ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);
57 curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
63 Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not, or
64 CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.
66 .BR CURLOPT_PROXYPASSWORD "(3), " CURLOPT_USERNAME "(3), "
67 .BR CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH "(3), " CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH "(3)"