CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET.md

c	SPDX-License-Identifier	Title	Section	Source	See-also	Protocol	TLS-backend
Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.	curl	CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET	3	libcurl	CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE (3)	TLS	OpenSSL

NAME

CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET - EGD socket path

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET, char *path);

DESCRIPTION

Deprecated option. It serves no purpose anymore.

Pass a char pointer 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.

DEFAULT

NULL

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_EGDSOCKET, "/var/egd.socket");
    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }
}

AVAILABILITY

Only with OpenSSL versions before 1.1.0.

This option was deprecated in 7.84.0.

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.