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docs: add CURLOPT type change history, drop casts where present

Some CURLOPT constants defined in the curl public headers were initially
enums (= ints), or macros with bare numeric values. Recent curl releases
upgraded them to `long` constants, to make them pass correctly to
`curl_easy_setop()` by default, i.e. without requiring a `(long)` cast.

This patch drops such casts from the examples embedded in the docs. At
the same time it documents which curl release made them `long` types,
to keep them useful when working with previous libcurl versions.

Also:
- drop a `(long)` cast that was never necessary.
- CURLOPT_ALTSVC_CTRL.md: bump local copy of macros to long.
- test1119: make it ignore symbols ending with an underscore, to skip
  wildcard, e.g. `**CURLAUTH_***`.

Closes #18130

2025-08-02 00:05:33 +02:00

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Title

Section

Source

See-also

Protocol

Added-in

curl

CURLOPT_SOCKS5_AUTH

libcurl

CURLOPT_PROXY (3)

CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE (3)

All

7.55.0

NAME

CURLOPT_SOCKS5_AUTH - methods for SOCKS5 proxy authentication

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_SOCKS5_AUTH, long bitmask);

DESCRIPTION

Pass a long as parameter, which is set to a bitmask, to tell libcurl which authentication method(s) are allowed for SOCKS5 proxy authentication. The only supported flags are CURLAUTH_BASIC, which allows username/password authentication, CURLAUTH_GSSAPI, which allows GSS-API authentication, and CURLAUTH_NONE, which allows no authentication. Set the actual username and password with the CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD(3) option.

DEFAULT

CURLAUTH_BASIC|CURLAUTH_GSSAPI

%PROTOCOLS%

EXAMPLE

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");

    /* request to use a SOCKS5 proxy */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXY, "socks5://user:pass@myproxy.com");

    /* enable username/password authentication only */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SOCKS5_AUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);

    /* Perform the request */
    curl_easy_perform(curl);
  }
}

HISTORY

CURLAUTH_* macros became long types in 7.26.0, prior to this version a long cast was necessary when passed to curl_easy_setopt(3).

%AVAILABILITY%

RETURN VALUE

curl_easy_setopt(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error.

CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error occurred, see libcurl-errors(3).

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