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1---
2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
4Title: CURLOPT_DOH_URL
5Section: 3
6Source: libcurl
7See-also:
8  - CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUT (3)
9  - CURLOPT_RESOLVE (3)
10  - CURLOPT_VERBOSE (3)
11Protocol:
12  - All
13Added-in: 7.62.0
14---
15
16# NAME
17
18CURLOPT_DOH_URL - provide the DNS-over-HTTPS URL
19
20# SYNOPSIS
21
22~~~c
23#include <curl/curl.h>
24
25CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_DOH_URL, char *URL);
26~~~
27
28# DESCRIPTION
29
30Pass in a pointer to a *URL* for the DoH server to use for name resolving. The
31parameter should be a char pointer to a null-terminated string which must be a
32valid and correct HTTPS URL.
33
34libcurl does not validate the syntax or use this variable until the transfer
35is issued. Even if you set a crazy value here, curl_easy_setopt(3) still
36returns *CURLE_OK*.
37
38curl sends POST requests to the given DNS-over-HTTPS URL.
39
40To find the DoH server itself, which might be specified using a name, libcurl
41uses the default name lookup function. You can bootstrap that by providing the
42address for the DoH server with CURLOPT_RESOLVE(3).
43
44The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this
45option.
46
47Using this option multiple times makes the last set string override the
48previous ones. Set it to NULL to disable its use again.
49
50# INHERIT OPTIONS
51
52DoH lookups use SSL and some SSL settings from your transfer are inherited,
53like CURLOPT_SSL_CTX_FUNCTION(3).
54
55The hostname and peer certificate verification settings are not inherited but
56can be controlled separately via CURLOPT_DOH_SSL_VERIFYHOST(3) and
57CURLOPT_DOH_SSL_VERIFYPEER(3).
58
59A set CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETFUNCTION(3) callback is not inherited.
60
61# KNOWN BUGS
62
63Even when DoH is set to be used with this option, there are still some name
64resolves that are performed without it, using the default name resolver
65mechanism. This includes name resolves done for CURLOPT_INTERFACE(3),
66CURLOPT_FTPPORT(3), a proxy type set to **CURLPROXY_SOCKS4** or
67**CURLPROXY_SOCKS5** and probably some more.
68
69# DEFAULT
70
71NULL
72
73# %PROTOCOLS%
74
75# EXAMPLE
76
77~~~c
78int main(void)
79{
80  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
81  if(curl) {
82    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
83    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_DOH_URL, "https://dns.example.com");
84    curl_easy_perform(curl);
85  }
86}
87~~~
88
89# %AVAILABILITY%
90
91# RETURN VALUE
92
93Returns CURLE_OK on success or CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient
94heap space.
95
96Note that curl_easy_setopt(3) does immediately parse the given string so
97when given a bad DoH URL, libcurl might not detect the problem until it later
98tries to resolve a name with it.
99