1---
2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
4Title: CURLINFO_REDIRECT_COUNT
5Section: 3
6Source: libcurl
7See-also:
8  - CURLINFO_REDIRECT_URL (3)
9  - CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION (3)
10  - curl_easy_getinfo (3)
11  - curl_easy_setopt (3)
12Protocol:
13  - All
14---
15
16# NAME
17
18CURLINFO_REDIRECT_COUNT - get the number of redirects
19
20# SYNOPSIS
21
22~~~c
23#include <curl/curl.h>
24
25CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_REDIRECT_COUNT,
26                           long *countp);
27~~~
28
29# DESCRIPTION
30
31Pass a pointer to a long to receive the total number of redirections that were
32actually followed.
33
34# EXAMPLE
35
36~~~c
37int main(void)
38{
39  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
40  if(curl) {
41    CURLcode res;
42    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
43    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L);
44    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
45    if(res == CURLE_OK) {
46      long redirects;
47      curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_REDIRECT_COUNT, &redirects);
48    }
49    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
50  }
51}
52~~~
53
54# AVAILABILITY
55
56Added in 7.9.7
57
58# RETURN VALUE
59
60Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.
61