NAME

CURLOPT_IPRESOLVE - IP protocol version to use

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_IPRESOLVE, long resolve);

DESCRIPTION

Allows an application to select what kind of IP addresses to use when establishing a connection or choosing one from the connection pool. This is interesting when using host names that resolve addresses using more than one version of IP. The allowed values are:

CURL_IPRESOLVE_WHATEVER: Default, can use addresses of all IP versions that your system allows.
CURL_IPRESOLVE_V4: Uses only IPv4 addresses.
CURL_IPRESOLVE_V6: Uses only IPv6 addresses.

DEFAULT

CURL_IPRESOLVE_WHATEVER

PROTOCOLS

All

EXAMPLE

CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/foo.bin");
  /* of all addresses example.com resolves to, only IPv6 ones are used */
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_IPRESOLVE, CURL_IPRESOLVE_V6);
  ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);
  curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}

AVAILABILITY

Always

RETURN VALUE

Returns CURLE_OK