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1---
2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel.se>, et al.
3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
4Title: CURLOPT_REFERER
5Section: 3
6Source: libcurl
7See-also:
8  - CURLINFO_REDIRECT_URL (3)
9  - CURLINFO_REFERER (3)
10  - CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER (3)
11  - CURLOPT_USERAGENT (3)
12---
13
14# NAME
15
16CURLOPT_REFERER - the HTTP referer header
17
18# SYNOPSIS
19
20~~~c
21#include <curl/curl.h>
22
23CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_REFERER, char *where);
24~~~
25
26# DESCRIPTION
27
28Pass a pointer to a null-terminated string as parameter. It is used to set the
29Referer: header field in the HTTP request sent to the remote server. You can
30set any custom header with CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3).
31
32The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this
33option.
34
35# DEFAULT
36
37NULL
38
39# PROTOCOLS
40
41HTTP
42
43# EXAMPLE
44
45~~~c
46int main(void)
47{
48  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
49  if(curl) {
50    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
51
52    /* tell it where we found the link to this place */
53    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_REFERER, "https://example.org/me.html");
54
55    curl_easy_perform(curl);
56  }
57}
58~~~
59
60# AVAILABILITY
61
62If built with HTTP support
63
64# RETURN VALUE
65
66Returns CURLE_OK if HTTP support is enabled, CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not, or
67CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.
68