NAME

       CURLINFO_REDIRECT_COUNT - get the number of redirects

SYNOPSIS

       #include <curl/curl.h>

       CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_REDIRECT_COUNT,
                                  long *countp);

DESCRIPTION

       Pass a pointer to a long to receive the total number of redirections that were actually followed.

PROTOCOLS

       This functionality affects all supported protocols

EXAMPLE

       int main(void)
       {
         CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
         if(curl) {
           CURLcode res;
           curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
           curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L);
           res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
           if(res == CURLE_OK) {
             long redirects;
             curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_REDIRECT_COUNT, &redirects);
           }
           curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
         }
       }

AVAILABILITY

       Added in curl 7.9.7

RETURN VALUE

       curl_easy_getinfo(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

       CURLINFO_REDIRECT_URL(3), CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION(3), curl_easy_getinfo(3), curl_easy_setopt(3)

libcurl                                            2025-07-22                         CURLINFO_REDIRECT_COUNT(3)