CURLOPT_RTSP_CLIENT_CSEQ(3)

🦋 CURLOPT_RTSP_CLIENT_CSEQ(3) 🦋

okay so this page is from the Library Functions Manual, and it's all about that RTSP CSEQ life. no cap, if you're resuming a previously broken connection, this is your little main-character setting. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

CURLOPT_RTSP_CLIENT_CSEQ — RTSP client CSEQ number

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

       #include <curl/curl.h>

       CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_RTSP_CLIENT_CSEQ, long cseq);

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

bestie, you pass a long here to set the CSEQ number that's gonna be issued for the next RTSP request. it's giving "useful if the application is resuming a previously broken connection" energy. and after you set it, the CSEQ increments from this new number henceforth. literally from that number onward. 🔥

💖 DEFAULT 💖

0

🧚 PROTOCOLS 🧚

this functionality affects rtsp only. not everything, just RTSP. periodt.

🍓 EXAMPLE 🍓

       int main(void)
       {
         CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
         if(curl) {
           CURLcode result;
           curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "rtsp://example.com/");
           curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_RTSP_CLIENT_CSEQ, 1234L);
           result = curl_easy_perform(curl);
           curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
         }
       }

👑 AVAILABILITY 👑

added in curl 7.20.0. iconic.

⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

curl_easy_setopt(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error.

CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK. non-zero means an error occurred, so go see libcurl-errors(3). 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• CURLINFO_RTSP_CLIENT_CSEQ(3)
• CURLINFO_RTSP_SERVER_CSEQ(3)
• CURLOPT_RTSP_REQUEST(3)
• CURLOPT_RTSP_SERVER_CSEQ(3)

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