1<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 2 "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> 3<html><head> 4<title>curl_easy_init man page</title> 5<meta name="generator" content="roffit"> 6<STYLE type="text/css"> 7P.level0 { 8 padding-left: 2em; 9} 10 11P.level1 { 12 padding-left: 4em; 13} 14 15P.level2 { 16 padding-left: 6em; 17} 18 19span.emphasis { 20 font-style: italic; 21} 22 23span.bold { 24 font-weight: bold; 25} 26 27span.manpage { 28 font-weight: bold; 29} 30 31h2.nroffsh { 32 background-color: #e0e0e0; 33} 34 35span.nroffip { 36 font-weight: bold; 37 font-size: 120%; 38 font-family: monospace; 39} 40 41p.roffit { 42 text-align: center; 43 font-size: 80%; 44} 45</STYLE> 46</head><body> 47 48<p class="level0"><a name="NAME"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">NAME</h2> 49<p class="level0">curl_easy_init - Start a libcurl easy session <a name="SYNOPSIS"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">SYNOPSIS</h2> 50<p class="level0"><span Class="bold">#include <curl/curl.h></span> 51<p class="level0"><span Class="bold">CURL *curl_easy_init( );</span> 52<p class="level0"><a name="DESCRIPTION"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">DESCRIPTION</h2> 53<p class="level0">This function must be the first function to call, and it returns a CURL easy handle that you must use as input to other easy-functions. curl_easy_init initializes curl and this call <span Class="bold">MUST</span> have a corresponding call to <a Class="emphasis" href="/curl_easy_cleanup.html">curl_easy_cleanup</a> when the operation is complete. 54<p class="level0">If you did not already call <a Class="emphasis" href="/curl_global_init.html">curl_global_init</a>, <a Class="emphasis" href="/curl_easy_init.html">curl_easy_init</a> does it automatically. This may be lethal in multi-threaded cases, since <a Class="emphasis" href="/curl_global_init.html">curl_global_init</a> is not thread-safe, and it may result in resource problems because there is no corresponding cleanup. 55<p class="level0">You are strongly advised to not allow this automatic behaviour, by calling <a Class="emphasis" href="/curl_global_init.html">curl_global_init</a> yourself properly. See the description in <span Class="bold">libcurl</span>(3) of global environment requirements for details of how to use this function. 56<p class="level0"><a name="RETURN"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">RETURN VALUE</h2> 57<p class="level0">If this function returns NULL, something went wrong and you cannot use the other curl functions. <a name="SEE"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">SEE ALSO</h2> 58<p class="level0"><a Class="manpage" href="/curl_easy_cleanup.html">curl_easy_cleanup</a> <a Class="manpage" href="/curl_global_init.html">curl_global_init</a> <a Class="manpage" href="/curl_easy_reset.html">curl_easy_reset</a> <p class="roffit"> 59 This HTML page was made with <a href="http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/roffit/">roffit</a>. 60</body></html> 61