curl_mime_addpart(3)

🎀 curl_mime_addpart(3) 🎀

okay so bestie, this page is from the Library Functions Manual, and it is literally about adding a brand-new empty part to your mime situation 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

curl_mime_addpart — append a new empty part to a mime structure 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <curl/curl.h>

curl_mimepart *curl_mime_addpart(curl_mime *mime);

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

curl_mime_addpart(3) creates and appends a new empty part to the given mime structure and returns a handle to it. The returned part handle can subsequently be populated using functions from the mime API. slay ✨

mime is the handle of the mime structure in which the new part must be appended. yes bestie, that is the whole assignment 💅

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🦋 PROTOCOLS 🦋

This functionality affects http, imap and smtp 👑

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🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

here is the example, served fresh and unchanged 😌

int main(void)
{
  curl_mime *mime;
  curl_mimepart *part;

  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    /* create a mime handle */
    mime = curl_mime_init(curl);

    /* add a part */
    part = curl_mime_addpart(mime);

    /* continue and set name + data to the part */
    curl_mime_data(part, "This is the field data", CURL_ZERO_TERMINATED);
    curl_mime_name(part, "data");
  }
}

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🧚 AVAILABILITY 🧚

Added in curl 7.56.0 ⭐

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💜 RETURN VALUE 💜

A mime part structure handle, or NULL upon failure. and that is the tea ☕

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• curl_mime_data(3)
• curl_mime_data_cb(3)
• curl_mime_encoder(3)
• curl_mime_filedata(3)
• curl_mime_filename(3)
• curl_mime_headers(3)
• curl_mime_init(3)
• curl_mime_name(3)
• curl_mime_subparts(3)
• curl_mime_type(3)

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mwah 💋 this iconic little page comes from libcurl, dated 2026-10-12, under the manual name curl_mime_addpart(3) — periodt 💖✨