CURLOPT_DOH_URL - provide the DNS-over-HTTPS URL

Added in curl 7.62.0

NULL

Pass in a pointer to a URL for the DoH server to use for name resolving. The parameter should be a char pointer to a null-terminated string which must be a valid and correct HTTPS URL. libcurl does not validate the syntax or use this variable until the transfer is issued. Even if you set a crazy value here, curl_easy_setopt(3) still returns CURLE_OK. curl sends POST requests to the given DNS-over-HTTPS URL. To find the DoH server itself, which might be specified using a name, libcurl uses the default name lookup function. You can bootstrap that by providing the address for the DoH server with CURLOPT_RESOLVE(3). The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this option. Using this option multiple times makes the last set string override the previous ones. Set it to NULL to disable its use again.

int main(void) { CURL *curl = curl_easy_init(); if(curl) { curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com"); curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_DOH_URL, "https://dns.example.com"); curl_easy_perform(curl); } }

DoH lookups use SSL and some SSL settings from your transfer are inherited, like CURLOPT_SSL_CTX_FUNCTION(3). The hostname and peer certificate verification settings are not inherited but can be controlled separately via CURLOPT_DOH_SSL_VERIFYHOST(3) and CURLOPT_DOH_SSL_VERIFYPEER(3). A set CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETFUNCTION(3) callback is not inherited.

Even when DoH is set to be used with this option, there are still some name resolves that are performed without it, using the default name resolver mechanism. This includes name resolves done for CURLOPT_INTERFACE(3), CURLOPT_FTPPORT(3), a proxy type set to CURLPROXY_SOCKS4 or CURLPROXY_SOCKS5 and probably some more.

CURLOPT_DOH_URL - provide the DNS-over-HTTPS URL

This functionality affects all supported protocols

curl_easy_setopt(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). Note that curl_easy_setopt(3) does immediately parse the given string so when given a bad DoH URL, libcurl might not detect the problem until it later tries to resolve a name with it.

CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUT(3), CURLOPT_RESOLVE(3), CURLOPT_VERBOSE(3) libcurl 2025-06-16 CURLOPT_DOH_URL(3)

#include <curl/curl.h> CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_DOH_URL, char *URL);