NAME

CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL - get the last used URL

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL, char **urlp);

DESCRIPTION

Pass in a pointer to a char pointer and get the last used effective URL.

In cases when you have asked libcurl to follow redirects, it may not be the same value you set with CURLOPT_URL(3).

The urlp pointer is NULL or points to private memory. You MUST NOT free - it gets freed when you call curl_easy_cleanup(3) on the corresponding curl handle.

PROTOCOLS

This functionality affects http only

EXAMPLE

int main(void)
{


  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();


  if(curl) {


    CURLcode res;


    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");


    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L);


    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);


    if(res == CURLE_OK) {


      char *url = NULL;


      curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL, &url);


      if(url)


        printf("Redirect to: %s\n", url);


    }


    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);


  }
}

AVAILABILITY

Added in curl 7.4

RETURN VALUE

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

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