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---
c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
Title: CURLOPT_USERAGENT
Section: 3
Source: libcurl
See-also:
- CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST (3)
- CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER (3)
- CURLOPT_REFERER (3)
- CURLOPT_REQUEST_TARGET (3)
---
# NAME
CURLOPT_USERAGENT - HTTP user-agent header
# SYNOPSIS
~~~c
#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, char *ua);
~~~
# DESCRIPTION
Pass a pointer to a null-terminated string as parameter. It is used to set the
User-Agent: header field in the HTTP request sent to the remote server. You
can also set any custom header with CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3).
The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this
option.
# DEFAULT
NULL, no User-Agent: header is used by default.
# PROTOCOLS
HTTP, HTTPS
# EXAMPLE
~~~c
int main(void)
{
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Dark Secret Ninja/1.0");
curl_easy_perform(curl);
}
}
~~~
# AVAILABILITY
As long as HTTP is supported
# RETURN VALUE
Returns CURLE_OK if HTTP is supported, CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not, or
CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.