.\" ************************************************************************** .\" * _ _ ____ _ .\" * Project ___| | | | _ \| | .\" * / __| | | | |_) | | .\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ .\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| .\" * .\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2017, Daniel Stenberg, , et al. .\" * .\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which .\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms .\" * are also available at https://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html. .\" * .\" * You may opt to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute and/or sell .\" * copies of the Software, and permit persons to whom the Software is .\" * furnished to do so, under the terms of the COPYING file. .\" * .\" * This software is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY .\" * KIND, either express or implied. .\" * .\" ************************************************************************** .\" .TH CURLOPT_HEADERDATA 3 "September 16, 2020" "libcurl 7.73.0" "curl_easy_setopt options" .SH NAME CURLOPT_HEADERDATA \- pointer to pass to header callback .SH SYNOPSIS #include CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_HEADERDATA, void *pointer); .SH DESCRIPTION Pass a \fIpointer\fP to be used to write the header part of the received data to. If \fICURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION(3)\fP or \fICURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION(3)\fP is used, \fIpointer\fP will be passed in to the respective callback. If neither of those options are set, \fIpointer\fP must be a valid FILE * and it will be used by a plain fwrite() to write headers to. .SH DEFAULT NULL .SH PROTOCOLS All .SH EXAMPLE .nf struct my_info { int shoesize; char *secret; }; static size_t header_callback(char *buffer, size_t size, size_t nitems, void *userdata) { struct my_info *i = (struct my_info *)userdata; /* now this callback can access the my_info struct */ return nitems * size; } CURL *curl = curl_easy_init(); if(curl) { struct my_info my = { 10, "the cookies are in the cupboard" }; curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com"); curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION, header_callback); /* pass in custom data to the callback */ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HEADERDATA, &my); curl_easy_perform(curl); } .fi .SH AVAILABILITY Always .SH RETURN VALUE Returns CURLE_OK .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION "(3), " CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION "(3), "