curl_url - create a URL handle

Added in curl 7.62.0

This function allocates a URL object and returns a CURLU handle for it, to be used as input to all other URL API functions. This is a handle to a URL object that holds or can hold URL components for a single URL. When the object is first created, there is of course no components stored. They are then set in the object with the curl_url_set(3) function.

int main(void) { CURLUcode rc; CURLU *url = curl_url(); rc = curl_url_set(url, CURLUPART_URL, "https://example.com", 0); if(!rc) { char *scheme; rc = curl_url_get(url, CURLUPART_SCHEME, &scheme, 0); if(!rc) { printf("the scheme is %s\n", scheme); curl_free(scheme); } curl_url_cleanup(url); } }

curl_url - create a URL handle

This functionality affects all supported protocols

Returns a CURLU * if successful, or NULL if out of memory.

CURLOPT_CURLU(3), curl_url_cleanup(3), curl_url_dup(3), curl_url_get(3), curl_url_set(3), curl_url_strerror(3) libcurl 2025-06-16 curl_url(3)

#include <curl/curl.h> CURLU *curl_url();