curl_easy_strerror - Man Page

#include <curl/curl.h>

const char *curl_easy_strerror(CURLcode errornum);

The curl_easy_strerror(3) function returns a string describing the CURLcode error code passed in the argument errornum.

Typically applications also appreciate CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER(3) for more specific error descriptions generated at runtime.

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int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    CURLcode res;
    /* set options */
    /* Perform the entire transfer */
    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
    /* Check for errors */
    if(res != CURLE_OK)
      fprintf(stderr, "curl_easy_perform() failed: %s\n",
              curl_easy_strerror(res));
  }
}

This function was added in libcurl 7.12.0

A pointer to a null-terminated string.

curl_multi_strerror(3), curl_share_strerror(3), curl_url_strerror(3), libcurl-errors(3)

curl_multi_strerror(3), CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER(3), curl_share_strerror(3), curl_url_strerror(3), libcurl-errors(3).