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curl_easy_init - Start a libcurl easy session

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURL *curl_easy_init();

This function must be the first function to call, and it returns a CURL easy handle that you must use as input to other functions in the easy interface. This call MUST have a corresponding call to curl_easy_cleanup(3) when the operation is complete. If you did not already call curl_global_init(3), curl_easy_init(3) does it automatically. This may be lethal in multi-threaded cases, since curl_global_init(3) is not thread-safe, and it may result in resource problems because there is no corresponding cleanup. You are strongly advised to not allow this automatic behavior, by calling curl_global_init(3) yourself properly. See the description in libcurl(3) of global environment requirements for details of how to use this function.

CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
 CURLcode res;
 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
 res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
 curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}

Always If this function returns NULL, something went wrong and you cannot use the other curl functions. curl_easy_cleanup "(3), " curl_global_init "(3), " curl_easy_reset "(3), " curl_easy_perform "(3) "