NAME

       CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE - file to read random data from

SYNOPSIS

       #include <curl/curl.h>

       CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE, char *path);

DESCRIPTION

       Deprecated option. It serves no purpose anymore.

       Pass  a char * to a null-terminated file name. The file might be used to read from to seed
       the random engine for SSL and more.

       The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this option.

DEFAULT

       NULL, not used

PROTOCOLS

       All

EXAMPLE

       CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
       if(curl) {
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/");
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE, "junk.txt");
         ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);
         curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
       }

AVAILABILITY

       If built with TLS enabled. Only the OpenSSL backend will use this, and only  with  OpenSSL
       versions before 1.1.0.

       This option was deprecated in 7.84.0.

RETURN VALUE

       Returns CURLE_OK on success or CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.

SEE ALSO

       CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET(3),