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23 .TH CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD 3 "May 30, 2017" "libcurl 7.59.0" "curl_easy_setopt options"
26 CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD \- user name and password to use for proxy authentication
28 #include <curl/curl.h>
30 CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, char *userpwd);
32 Pass a char * as parameter, which should be [user name]:[password] to use for
33 the connection to the HTTP proxy. Both the name and the password will be URL
34 decoded before use, so to include for example a colon in the user name you
35 should encode it as %3A. (This is different to how \fICURLOPT_USERPWD(3)\fP is
38 Use \fICURLOPT_PROXYAUTH(3)\fP to specify the authentication method.
40 The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this
43 This is NULL by default.
45 Used with all protocols that can use a proxy
48 CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
50 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com/foo.bin");
51 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXY, "http://localhost:8080");
52 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, "clark%20kent:superman");
53 ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);
54 curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
60 Returns CURLE_OK if proxies are supported, CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not, or
61 CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.
63 .BR CURLOPT_PROXY "(3), " CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE "(3), "