curl/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_METHOD.md
Daniel Stenberg 8c1d9378ac
curldown: make 'added-in:' a mandatory header field
- generate AVAILABILITY manpage sections automatically - for consistent
  wording

- allows us to double-check against other documumentation (symbols-in-versions
  etc)

- enables proper automation/scripting based on this data

- lots of them were wrong or missing in the manpages

- several of them repeated (sometimes mismatching) backend support info

Add test 1488 to verify "added-in" version numbers against
symbols-in-versions.

Closes #14217
2024-07-18 18:04:09 +02:00

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---
c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
Title: CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_METHOD
Section: 3
Source: libcurl
See-also:
- CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST (3)
- CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION (3)
- curl_easy_getinfo (3)
- curl_easy_setopt (3)
Protocol:
- HTTP
Added-in: 7.72.0
---
# NAME
CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_METHOD - get the last used HTTP method
# SYNOPSIS
~~~c
#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_METHOD,
char **methodp);
~~~
# DESCRIPTION
Pass in a pointer to a char pointer and get the last used effective HTTP
method.
In cases when you have asked libcurl to follow redirects, the method may not be
the same method the first request would use.
The **methodp** pointer is NULL or points to private memory. You MUST NOT
free - it gets freed when you call curl_easy_cleanup(3) on the
corresponding CURL handle.
# EXAMPLE
~~~c
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_POSTFIELDS, "data");
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L);
res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
if(res == CURLE_OK) {
char *method = NULL;
curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_METHOD, &method);
if(method)
printf("Redirected to method: %s\n", method);
}
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}
}
~~~
# RETURN VALUE
Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.