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CURLOPT_USERAGENT(3) libcurl CURLOPT_USERAGENT(3)
NAME
 CURLOPT_USERAGENT - HTTP user-agent header
SYNOPSIS
 #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 will be
 used to set the User-Agent: header in the HTTP request sent to the
 remote server. This can be used to fool servers or scripts. 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
 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.
SEE ALSO
 CURLOPT_REFERER(3), CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3),
ibcurl 8.1.2 April 26, 2023 CURLOPT_USERAGENT(3)

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