GNURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD(3)

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the GNURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD(3) page — it's part of the curl_easy_setopt options crew, and the actual option is CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD: the user name and password you use for proxy authentication 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <gnurl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, char *userpwd);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

You pass a char * as the parameter, and it should be [user name]:[password] for the connection to the HTTP proxy. Both the name and the password are URL decoded before they get used, so if you want a colon in the user name, for example, you've gotta encode it as %3A.

⚠️ heads up, bestie: this is different to how CURLOPT_USERPWD(3) is used — beware, okay? 😭

If you need to specify the authentication method, that's what CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH(3) is for.

Good news: your application does not have to keep the string around after setting this option. Set it and move on, periodt ✨

🌸 DEFAULT 🌸

This is NULL by default — iconic, minimal, no notes.

🔥 PROTOCOLS 🔥

Used with all protocols that can use a proxy 🫶

🍓 EXAMPLE 🍓

CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com/foo.bin");
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXY, "http://localhost:8080");
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, "clark%20kent:superman");
  ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);
  curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}

💜 AVAILABILITY 💜

Always. Literally always 🫶

🌈 RETURN VALUE 🌈

Returns CURLE_OK if proxies are supported, CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not, or CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space. That's the whole mood.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go peek at CURLOPT_PROXY(3) and CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE(3), — iykyk 👀

okay that's the tea ☕ — this page comes from libcurl 7.37.0, dated 17 Jun 2014, and it's the GNURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD(3) manual page. mwah 💋