1---
2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
4Title: CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL
5Section: 3
6Source: libcurl
7See-also:
8  - CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION (3)
9  - curl_easy_getinfo (3)
10  - curl_easy_setopt (3)
11Protocol:
12  - HTTP
13Added-in: 7.4
14---
15
16# NAME
17
18CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL - get the last used URL
19
20# SYNOPSIS
21
22~~~c
23#include <curl/curl.h>
24
25CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL, char **urlp);
26~~~
27
28# DESCRIPTION
29
30Pass in a pointer to a char pointer and get the last used effective URL.
31
32In cases when you have asked libcurl to follow redirects, it may not be the same
33value you set with CURLOPT_URL(3).
34
35The **urlp** pointer is NULL or points to private memory. You MUST NOT free
36- it gets freed when you call curl_easy_cleanup(3) on the corresponding
37CURL handle.
38
39# %PROTOCOLS%
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_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L);
51    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
52    if(res == CURLE_OK) {
53      char *url = NULL;
54      curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL, &url);
55      if(url)
56        printf("Redirect to: %s\n", url);
57    }
58    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
59  }
60}
61~~~
62
63# %AVAILABILITY%
64
65# RETURN VALUE
66
67Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.
68