.\" ************************************************************************** .\" * _ _ ____ _ .\" * Project ___| | | | _ \| | .\" * / __| | | | |_) | | .\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ .\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| .\" * .\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2014, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. .\" * .\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which .\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms .\" * are also available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html. .\" * .\" * You may opt to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute and/or sell .\" * copies of the Software, and permit persons to whom the Software is .\" * furnished to do so, under the terms of the COPYING file. .\" * .\" * This software is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY .\" * KIND, either express or implied. .\" * .\" ************************************************************************** .\" .TH CURLOPT_USERAGENT 3 "17 Jun 2014" "libcurl 7.37.0" "curl_easy_setopt options" .SH NAME CURLOPT_USERAGENT \- set HTTP user-agent header .SH SYNOPSIS #include <curl/curl.h> CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, char *ua); .SH DESCRIPTION Pass a pointer to a zero terminated string as parameter. It will be used to set the User-Agent: header in the HTTP request sent to the remote server. This can be used to fool servers or scripts. You can also set any custom header with \fICURLOPT_HTTPHEADER(3)\fP. .SH DEFAULT NULL, no User-Agent: header is used by default. .SH PROTOCOLS HTTP, HTTPS .SH EXAMPLE TODO .SH AVAILABILITY As long as HTTP is supported .SH RETURN VALUE Returns CURLE_OK if HTTP is supported, CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not, or CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space. .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR CURLOPT_REFERER "(3), " CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER "(3), "