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CURLOPT_NOBODY(3)	   Library Functions Manual	     CURLOPT_NOBODY(3)

NAME
       CURLOPT_NOBODY -	do the download	request	without	getting	the body

SYNOPSIS
       #include	<curl/curl.h>

       CURLcode	curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_NOBODY, long opt);

DESCRIPTION
       A long parameter	set to 1 tells libcurl to not include the body-part in
       the  output when	doing what would otherwise be a	download. For HTTP(S),
       this makes libcurl do a HEAD request. For most other protocols it means
       just not	asking to transfer the body data.

       For HTTP	operations when	CURLOPT_NOBODY(3) has been set,	disabling this
       option (with 0) makes it	a GET again - only if the method is still  set
       to  be HEAD. The	proper way to get back to a GET	request	is to set CUR-
       LOPT_HTTPGET(3) and for other methods, use the POST or UPLOAD options.

       Enabling	CURLOPT_NOBODY(3) means	asking for a download without a	body.

       If you do a transfer with HTTP that involves a method other than	 HEAD,
       you  get	 a body	(unless	the resource and server	sends a	zero byte body
       for the specific	URL you	request).

DEFAULT
       0, the body is transferred

PROTOCOLS
       This functionality affects all supported	protocols

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

	   /* get us the resource without a body - use HEAD */
	   curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 1L);

	   /* Perform the request */
	   curl_easy_perform(curl);
	 }
       }

AVAILABILITY
       Added in	curl 7.1

RETURN VALUE
       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).

SEE ALSO
       CURLOPT_HTTPGET(3),  CURLOPT_MIMEPOST(3),  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS(3),  CUR-
       LOPT_REQUEST_TARGET(3), CURLOPT_UPLOAD(3)

libcurl				  2025-06-03		     CURLOPT_NOBODY(3)

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