GNURLOPT_EGDSOCKET(3)

💅 GNURLOPT_EGDSOCKET(3) — set EGD socket path

okay so this is from the gnurl manual, section 3, and it’s literally about telling TLS where the Entropy Gathering Daemon socket lives. bestie, it’s giving “random seed but make it socket path.” ✨

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🌸 NAME

CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET — set EGD socket path 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS

#include <gnurl/curl.h>

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

💖 DESCRIPTION

Pass a char * to the null-terminated path name to the Entropy Gathering Daemon socket. It will be used to seed the random engine for SSL. slay 🔥

The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this option. So yes, you can let it go after you set it — no clingy string energy required. 🦋

🌈 DEFAULT

NULL

🧚 PROTOCOLS

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

🍓 EXAMPLE

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

👑 AVAILABILITY

If built TLS enabled. Only the OpenSSL and GnuTLS backends will use this. no cap 🔥

💀 RETURN VALUE

• Returns CURLE_OK if TLS is supported.
• Returns CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.
• Returns CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space. 😭

🫶 SEE ALSO

• CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE(3), — yep, that’s the SEE ALSO bestie 💜

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okay bye bestie — this page is from libcurl 7.37.0, dated 17 Jun 2014. 🫶💖✨