CURLOPT_SSH_HOSTKEYFUNCTION - callback to check host key

Added in curl 7.84.0

NULL

Pass a pointer to your callback function, which should match the prototype shown above. It overrides CURLOPT_SSH_KNOWNHOSTS(3). This callback gets called when the verification of the SSH host key is needed. key is keylen bytes long and is the key to check. keytype says what type it is, from the CURLKHTYPE_* series in the curl_khtype enum. clientp is a custom pointer set with CURLOPT_SSH_HOSTKEYDATA(3). The callback MUST return one of the following return codes to tell libcurl how to act: CURLKHMATCH_OK The host key is accepted, the connection should continue. CURLKHMATCH_MISMATCH the host key is rejected, the connection is canceled.

struct mine { void *custom; }; int hostkeycb(void *clientp, /* passed with CURLOPT_SSH_HOSTKEYDATA */ int keytype, /* CURLKHTYPE */ const char *key, /* host key to check */ size_t keylen) /* length of the key */ { /* 'clientp' points to the callback_data struct */ /* investigate the situation and return the correct value */ return CURLKHMATCH_OK; } int main(void) { struct mine callback_data; CURL *curl = curl_easy_init(); if(curl) { curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "sftp://example.com/thisfile.txt"); curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSH_HOSTKEYFUNCTION, hostkeycb); curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSH_HOSTKEYDATA, &callback_data); curl_easy_perform(curl); } }

CURLOPT_SSH_HOSTKEYFUNCTION - callback to check host key

Work only with the libssh2 backend.

This functionality affects scp and sftp

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).

CURLOPT_SSH_HOSTKEYDATA(3), CURLOPT_SSH_KNOWNHOSTS(3) libcurl 2025-06-16 CURLOPT_SSH_HOSTKEYFUNCTION(3)

#include <curl/curl.h> int keycallback(void *clientp, int keytype, const char *key, size_t keylen); CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_SSH_HOSTKEYFUNCTION, keycallback);