1--- 2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4Title: CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET 5Section: 3 6Source: libcurl 7See-also: 8 - CURLOPT_RANDOM_FILE (3) 9Protocol: 10 - TLS 11TLS-backend: 12 - OpenSSL 13--- 14 15# NAME 16 17CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET - EGD socket path 18 19# SYNOPSIS 20 21~~~c 22#include <curl/curl.h> 23 24CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET, char *path); 25~~~ 26 27# DESCRIPTION 28 29Deprecated option. It serves no purpose anymore. 30 31Pass a char pointer to the null-terminated path name to the Entropy Gathering 32Daemon socket. It is used to seed the random engine for TLS. 33 34The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this 35option. 36 37# DEFAULT 38 39NULL 40 41# EXAMPLE 42 43~~~c 44int main(void) 45{ 46 CURL *curl = curl_easy_init(); 47 if(curl) { 48 CURLcode res; 49 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/"); 50 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET, "/var/egd.socket"); 51 res = curl_easy_perform(curl); 52 curl_easy_cleanup(curl); 53 } 54} 55~~~ 56 57# AVAILABILITY 58 59Only with OpenSSL versions before 1.1.0. 60 61This option was deprecated in 7.84.0. 62 63# RETURN VALUE 64 65Returns CURLE_OK if TLS is supported, CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not, or 66CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space. 67
