CURLINFO_CONN_ID(3)

CURLINFO_CONN_ID3

Id of the last connection

Usage

#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_CONN_ID,
                           curl_off_t *conn_id);

Overview

Pass a pointer to a curl_off_t to receive the connection identifier last used by the handle. Stores -1 if there was no connection used.

The connection id is unique among all connections using the same connection cache. This is implicitly the case for all connections in the same multi handle.

Protocols

This functionality affects all supported protocols

Examples

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    CURLcode result;
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
    /* Perform the request */
    result = curl_easy_perform(curl);
    if(result == CURLE_OK) {
      curl_off_t conn_id;
      result = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_CONN_ID, &conn_id);
      if(result == CURLE_OK) {
        printf("Connection used: %" CURL_FORMAT_CURL_OFF_T "\n", conn_id);
      }
    }
  }
}

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).

Releases

2 releases since Debian 13 (Trixie); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 13
  2. Arch

Availability

Added in curl 8.2.0

From curl 8.23.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.