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-.TH CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETDATA 3 "16 Jun 2014" "libcurl 7.37.0" "curl_easy_setopt options"
+.TH CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETDATA 3 "May 15, 2017" "libcurl 7.59.0" "curl_easy_setopt options"
+
.SH NAME
CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETDATA \- custom pointer passed to open socket callback
.SH SYNOPSIS
.SH PROTOCOLS
All
.SH EXAMPLE
-TODO
+.nf
+/* make libcurl use the already established socket 'sockfd' */
+
+static curl_socket_t opensocket(void *clientp,
+ curlsocktype purpose,
+ struct curl_sockaddr *address)
+{
+ curl_socket_t sockfd;
+ sockfd = *(curl_socket_t *)clientp;
+ /* the actual externally set socket is passed in via the OPENSOCKETDATA
+ option */
+ return sockfd;
+}
+
+static int sockopt_callback(void *clientp, curl_socket_t curlfd,
+ curlsocktype purpose)
+{
+ /* This return code was added in libcurl 7.21.5 */
+ return CURL_SOCKOPT_ALREADY_CONNECTED;
+}
+
+curl = curl_easy_init();
+if(curl) {
+ /* libcurl will internally think that you connect to the host
+ * and port that you specify in the URL option. */
+ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://99.99.99.99:9999");
+ /* call this function to get a socket */
+ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETFUNCTION, opensocket);
+ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETDATA, &sockfd);
+
+ /* call this function to set options for the socket */
+ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SOCKOPTFUNCTION, sockopt_callback);
+
+ res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
+
+ curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
+}
+.fi
.SH AVAILABILITY
Added in 7.17.1
.SH RETURN VALUE