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
14Added-in: 7.9.7
15---
16
17# NAME
18
19CURLINFO_REDIRECT_COUNT - get the number of redirects
20
21# SYNOPSIS
22
23~~~c
24#include <curl/curl.h>
25
26CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_REDIRECT_COUNT,
27                           long *countp);
28~~~
29
30# DESCRIPTION
31
32Pass a pointer to a long to receive the total number of redirections that were
33actually followed.
34
35# %PROTOCOLS%
36
37# EXAMPLE
38
39~~~c
40int main(void)
41{
42  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
43  if(curl) {
44    CURLcode res;
45    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
46    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L);
47    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
48    if(res == CURLE_OK) {
49      long redirects;
50      curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_REDIRECT_COUNT, &redirects);
51    }
52    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
53  }
54}
55~~~
56
57# %AVAILABILITY%
58
59# RETURN VALUE
60
61Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.
62