NAME

       CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER - error buffer for error messages

SYNOPSIS

       #include <curl/curl.h>

       CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER, char *buf);

DESCRIPTION

       Pass  a  char pointer to a buffer that libcurl may use to store human readable error messages on failures
       or problems. This may be more helpful than just the return code  from  curl_easy_perform(3)  and  related
       functions. The buffer must be at least CURL_ERROR_SIZE bytes big.

       You  must  keep  the associated buffer available until libcurl no longer needs it. Failing to do so might
       cause odd behavior or even crashes. libcurl might need it until you call curl_easy_cleanup(3) or you  set
       the same option again to use a different pointer.

       Do  not  rely  on  the  contents  of  the buffer unless an error code was returned.  Since 7.60.0 libcurl
       initializes the contents of the error buffer to an empty  string  before  performing  the  transfer.  For
       earlier  versions  if  an  error  code  was  returned  but  there was no error detail then the buffer was
       untouched.

       Consider CURLOPT_VERBOSE(3) and CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION(3) to better debug and trace why errors happen.

DEFAULT

       NULL

PROTOCOLS

       This functionality affects all supported protocols

EXAMPLE

       #include <string.h> /* for strlen() */
       int main(void)
       {
         CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
         if(curl) {
           CURLcode res;
           char errbuf[CURL_ERROR_SIZE];

           curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");

           /* provide a buffer to store errors in */
           curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER, errbuf);

           /* set the error buffer as empty before performing a request */
           errbuf[0] = 0;

           /* perform the request */
           res = curl_easy_perform(curl);

           /* if the request did not complete correctly, show the error
           information. if no detailed error information was written to errbuf
           show the more generic information from curl_easy_strerror instead.
           */
           if(res != CURLE_OK) {
             size_t len = strlen(errbuf);
             fprintf(stderr, "\nlibcurl: (%d) ", res);
             if(len)
               fprintf(stderr, "%s%s", errbuf,
                       ((errbuf[len - 1] != '\n') ? "\n" : ""));
             else
               fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", curl_easy_strerror(res));
           }
         }
       }

AVAILABILITY

       Added in curl 7.1

RETURN VALUE

       Returns CURLE_OK

SEE ALSO

       CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION(3),     CURLOPT_VERBOSE(3),     curl_easy_strerror(3),      curl_multi_strerror(3),
       curl_share_strerror(3), curl_url_strerror(3)

libcurl                                            2024-12-11                             CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER(3)