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CURLINFO_NUM_CONNECTS(3) Introduction to Library Functions

NAME

CURLINFO_NUM_CONNECTS - get number of created connections

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_NUM_CONNECTS, long *nump);

DESCRIPTION

Pass a pointer to a long to receive how many new connections libcurl
had to create to achieve the previous transfer (only the successful
connects are counted). Combined with CURLINFO_REDIRECT_COUNT(3) you
are able to know how many times libcurl successfully reused existing
connection(s) or not. See the connection options of
curl_easy_setopt(3) to see how libcurl tries to make persistent
connections to save time.

PROTOCOLS

This functionality affects all supported protocols

EXAMPLE

int main(void)
{
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
CURLcode res;
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L);
res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
if(res == CURLE_OK) {
long connects;
res = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_NUM_CONNECTS, &connects);
if(!res)
printf("It needed %ld connects\n", connects);
}
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}
}

AVAILABILITY

Added in curl 7.12.3

RETURN VALUE

curl_easy_getinfo(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error.

CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error
occurred, see libcurl-errors(3).