NAME

curl_url - create a URL handle

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLU *curl_url();

DESCRIPTION

This function allocates a URL object and returns a CURLU handle for it, to be used as input to all other URL API functions.

This is a handle to a URL object that holds or can hold URL components for a single URL. When the object is first created, there is of course no components stored. They are then set in the object with the curl_url_set(3) function.

PROTOCOLS

This functionality affects all supported protocols

EXAMPLE

int main(void)
{


  CURLUcode rc;


  CURLU *url = curl_url();


  rc = curl_url_set(url, CURLUPART_URL, "https://example.com", 0);


  if(!rc) {


    char *scheme;


    rc = curl_url_get(url, CURLUPART_SCHEME, &scheme, 0);


    if(!rc) {


      printf("the scheme is %s\n", scheme);


      curl_free(scheme);


    }


    curl_url_cleanup(url);


  }
}

AVAILABILITY

Added in curl 7.62.0

RETURN VALUE

Returns a CURLU * if successful, or NULL if out of memory.