Sortix
Sortix Download Manual Development Source Code News Blog More
current nightly

Sortix volatile manual

This manual documents Sortix volatile, a development build that has not been officially released. You can instead view this document in the latest official manual.

CURLOPT_WS_OPTIONS(3) Library Functions Manual CURLOPT_WS_OPTIONS(3)

NAME

CURLOPT_WS_OPTIONS - WebSocket behavior options

SYNOPSIS


#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_WS_OPTIONS, long bitmask);

DESCRIPTION

Pass a long with a bitmask to tell libcurl about specific WebSocket behaviors.
 
To detach a WebSocket connection and use the curl_ws_send(3) and curl_ws_recv(3) functions after the HTTP upgrade procedure, set the CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY(3) option to 2L.
 
Available bits in the bitmask
CURLWS_RAW_MODE (1)
Deliver "raw" WebSocket traffic to the CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION(3) callback.
 
In raw mode, libcurl does not handle pings or any other frame for the application.

DEFAULT

0

PROTOCOLS

This functionality affects ws only

EXAMPLE


int main(void)
{
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
CURLcode res;
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "ws://example.com/");
/* tell curl we deal with all the WebSocket magic ourselves */
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WS_OPTIONS, (long)CURLWS_RAW_MODE);
res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}
}

AVAILABILITY

Added in curl 7.86.0

RETURN VALUE

Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.

SEE ALSO

CURLOPT_CONNECT_ONLY(3), curl_ws_recv(3), curl_ws_send(3)
2025-05-14 libcurl
Copyright 2011-2025 Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen and contributors.
Sortix's source code is free software under the ISC license.
#sortix on irc.sortix.org
@sortix_org