NAME

CURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME - username to use for proxy authentication

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME,


                          char *username);

DESCRIPTION

Pass a char pointer as parameter, which should be pointing to the null-terminated username to use for the transfer.

CURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME(3) sets the username to be used in protocol authentication with the proxy.

To specify the proxy password use the CURLOPT_PROXYPASSWORD(3).

The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this option.

DEFAULT

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PROTOCOLS

This functionality affects all supported protocols

EXAMPLE

int main(void)
{


  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();


  if(curl) {


    CURLcode res;


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


    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXY, "http://localhost:8080");


    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERNAME, "mrsmith");


    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXYPASSWORD, "qwerty");


    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);


    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);


  }
}

AVAILABILITY

Added in curl 7.19.1

RETURN VALUE

curl_easy_setopt(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).

SEE ALSO

CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH(3), CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH(3), CURLOPT_PROXYPASSWORD(3), CURLOPT_USERNAME(3)