NAME

       CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET - EGD socket path

SYNOPSIS

       #include <curl/curl.h>

       CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET, char *path);

DESCRIPTION

       Deprecated option. It serves no purpose anymore.

       Pass a char * to the null-terminated path name to the Entropy Gathering Daemon socket. It is used to seed
       the random engine for TLS.

       The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this option.

DEFAULT

       NULL

PROTOCOLS

       All TLS based protocols: HTTPS, FTPS, IMAPS, POP3S, SMTPS etc.

EXAMPLE

       int main(void)
       {
         CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
         if(curl) {
           CURLcode res;
           curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/");
           curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET, "/var/egd.socket");
           res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
           curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
         }
       }

AVAILABILITY

       If  built  with  TLS  enabled.  Only the OpenSSL backend uses this, and only with OpenSSL versions before
       1.1.0.

       This option was deprecated in 7.84.0.

RETURN VALUE

       Returns CURLE_OK if TLS is supported, CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not, or CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY  if  there  was
       insufficient heap space.

SEE ALSO

       CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE(3)

ibcurl 8.5.0                                    December 04, 2023                           CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET(3)