NAME

       CURLOPT_HTTPGET - ask for an HTTP GET request

SYNOPSIS

       #include <curl/curl.h>

       CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, long useget);

DESCRIPTION

       Pass  a  long.  If  useget is 1, this forces the HTTP request to get back to using GET. Usable if a POST,
       HEAD, PUT, etc has been used previously using the same curl handle.

       When  setting  CURLOPT_HTTPGET(3)  to  1,  libcurl  automatically  sets  CURLOPT_NOBODY(3)   to   0   and
       CURLOPT_UPLOAD(3) to 0.

       Setting  this  option  to  zero  has no effect. Applications need to explicitly select which HTTP request
       method to  use,  they  cannot  deselect  a  method.  To  reset  a  handle  to  default  method,  consider
       curl_easy_reset(3).

DEFAULT

       0

PROTOCOLS

       This functionality affects http only

EXAMPLE

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

           /* use a GET to fetch this */
           curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, 1L);

           /* Perform the request */
           curl_easy_perform(curl);
         }
       }

AVAILABILITY

       Added in curl 7.8.1

RETURN VALUE

       curl_easy_setopt(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error.

       CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error occurred, see libcurl-errors(3).

SEE ALSO

       CURLOPT_NOBODY(3), CURLOPT_POST(3), CURLOPT_UPLOAD(3), curl_easy_reset(3)

libcurl                                            2025-03-05                                 CURLOPT_HTTPGET(3)