CURLOPT_LOGIN_OPTIONS(3) curl_easy_setopt options CURLOPT_LOGIN_OPTIONS(3)
NAME
CURLOPT_LOGIN_OPTIONS - login options
SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_LOGIN_OPTIONS, char *options);
DESCRIPTION
Pass a char * as parameter, which should be pointing to the null-termi-
nated options string to use for the transfer.
For more information about the login options please see RFC2384,
RFC5092 and IETF draft draft-earhart-url-smtp-00.txt
CURLOPT_LOGIN_OPTIONS(3) can be used to set protocol specific login op-
tions, such as the preferred authentication mechanism via "AUTH=NTLM"
or "AUTH=*", and should be used in conjunction with the CURLOPT_USER-
NAME(3) option.
The application does not have to keep the string around after setting
this option.
DEFAULT
NULL
PROTOCOLS
Only IMAP, POP3 and SMTP support login options.
EXAMPLE
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "smtp://example.com/");
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_LOGIN_OPTIONS, "AUTH=*");
ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}
AVAILABILITY
Added in 7.34.0
RETURN VALUE
Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if
not, or CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.
SEE ALSO
CURLOPT_USERNAME(3), CURLOPT_PASSWORD(3),
libcurl 7.81.0 November 26, 2021 CURLOPT_LOGIN_OPTIONS(3)
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