noble (3) CURLOPT_PATH_AS_IS.3.gz

NAME

       CURLOPT_PATH_AS_IS - do not handle dot dot sequences

SYNOPSIS

       #include <curl/curl.h>

       CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_PATH_AS_IS, long leaveit);

DESCRIPTION

       Set the long leaveit to 1, to explicitly tell libcurl to not alter the given path before passing it on to
       the server.

       This instructs libcurl to NOT squash sequences of "/../" or "/./" that may exist in the URL's  path  part
       and that is supposed to be removed according to RFC 3986 section 5.2.4.

       Some  server  implementations  are  known to (erroneously) require the dot dot sequences to remain in the
       path and some clients want to pass these on in order to try out server implementations.

       By default libcurl normalizes such sequences before using the path.

       The corresponding flag for the curl_url_set(3) function is called CURLU_PATH_AS_IS.

DEFAULT

       0

PROTOCOLS

       All

EXAMPLE

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

           curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PATH_AS_IS, 1L);

           curl_easy_perform(curl);
         }
       }

AVAILABILITY

       Added in 7.42.0

RETURN VALUE

       Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.

SEE ALSO

       curl_url_set(3), CURLOPT_STDERR(3), CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION(3), CURLOPT_URL(3)