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.TH CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET 3 "17 Jun 2014" libcurl libcurl
.SH NAME
CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET \- EGD socket path
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET, char *path);
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
Deprecated option. It serves no purpose anymore.
Pass a char * to the null-terminated path name to the Entropy Gathering Daemon
socket. It is used to seed the random engine for TLS.
The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this
option.
.SH DEFAULT
NULL
.SH PROTOCOLS
All TLS based protocols: HTTPS, FTPS, IMAPS, POP3S, SMTPS etc.
.SH EXAMPLE
.nf
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_EGDSOCKET, "/var/egd.socket");
res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}
}
.fi
.SH AVAILABILITY
If built with TLS enabled. Only the OpenSSL backend uses this, and only with
OpenSSL versions before 1.1.0.
This option was deprecated in 7.84.0.
.SH RETURN VALUE
Returns CURLE_OK if TLS is supported, CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not, or
CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE (3)