curl/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_REFERER.md
Daniel Stenberg e3fe020089
docs/libcurl: generate PROTOCOLS from meta-data
Remove the PROTOCOLS section from the source files completely and
instead generate them based on the header data in the curldown files.

It also generates TLS backend information for options marked for TLS as
protocol.

Closes #13175
2024-03-23 18:13:03 +01:00

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---
c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
Title: CURLOPT_REFERER
Section: 3
Source: libcurl
See-also:
- CURLINFO_REDIRECT_URL (3)
- CURLINFO_REFERER (3)
- CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER (3)
- CURLOPT_USERAGENT (3)
Protocol:
- HTTP
---
# NAME
CURLOPT_REFERER - the HTTP referer header
# SYNOPSIS
~~~c
#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_REFERER, char *where);
~~~
# DESCRIPTION
Pass a pointer to a null-terminated string as parameter. It is used to set the
Referer: header field in the HTTP request sent to the remote server. You can
set any custom header with CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3).
The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this
option.
# DEFAULT
NULL
# EXAMPLE
~~~c
int main(void)
{
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
/* tell it where we found the link to this place */
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_REFERER, "https://example.org/me.html");
curl_easy_perform(curl);
}
}
~~~
# AVAILABILITY
If built with HTTP support
# RETURN VALUE
Returns CURLE_OK if HTTP support is enabled, CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not, or
CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.