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CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE(3)     Library Functions Manual	 CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE(3)

NAME
     CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE - size of response headers

SYNOPSIS
     #include <curl/curl.h>

     CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE, long *sizep);

DESCRIPTION
     Pass  a  pointer to a long to receive the total size of all the headers re-
     ceived. Measured in number of bytes.

     The total includes the size of any  received  headers  suppressed	by  CUR-
     LOPT_SUPPRESS_CONNECT_HEADERS(3).

PROTOCOLS
     This functionality affects all supported protocols

EXAMPLE
     int main(void)
     {
       CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
       if(curl) {
	 CURLcode result;
	 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
	 result = curl_easy_perform(curl);
	 if(result == CURLE_OK) {
	   long size;
	   result = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE, &size);
	   if(result == CURLE_OK)
	     printf("Header size: %ld bytes\n", size);
	 }
	 curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
       }
     }

AVAILABILITY
     Added in curl 7.4.1

RETURN VALUE
     curl_easy_getinfo(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).

SEE ALSO
     CURLINFO_REQUEST_SIZE(3),	CURLINFO_SIZE_DOWNLOAD(3), curl_easy_getinfo(3),
     curl_easy_setopt(3)

libcurl 			   2026-06-11		 CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE(3)

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