curl/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_PORT.md
Daniel Stenberg eefcc1bda4
docs: introduce "curldown" for libcurl man page format
curldown is this new file format for libcurl man pages. It is markdown
inspired with differences:

- Each file has a set of leading headers with meta-data
- Supports a small subset of markdown
- Uses .md file extensions for editors/IDE/GitHub to treat them nicely
- Generates man pages very similar to the previous ones
- Generates man pages that still convert nicely to HTML on the website
- Detects and highlights mentions of curl symbols automatically (when
  their man page section is specified)

tools:

- cd2nroff: converts from curldown to nroff man page
- nroff2cd: convert an (old) nroff man page to curldown
- cdall: convert many nroff pages to curldown versions
- cd2cd: verifies and updates a curldown to latest curldown

This setup generates .3 versions of all the curldown versions at build time.

CI:

Since the documentation is now technically markdown in the eyes of many
things, the CI runs many more tests and checks on this documentation,
including proselint, link checkers and tests that make sure we capitalize the
first letter after a period...

Closes #12730
2024-01-23 00:29:02 +01:00

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---
c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel.se>, et al.
SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
Title: CURLOPT_PORT
Section: 3
Source: libcurl
See-also:
- CURLINFO_PRIMARY_PORT (3)
- CURLOPT_STDERR (3)
- CURLOPT_URL (3)
---
# NAME
CURLOPT_PORT - remote port number to connect to
# SYNOPSIS
~~~c
#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_PORT, long number);
~~~
# DESCRIPTION
We discourage using this option since its scope is not obvious and hard to
predict. Set the preferred port number in the URL instead.
This option sets *number* to be the remote port number to connect to,
instead of the one specified in the URL or the default port for the used
protocol.
Usually, you just let the URL decide which port to use but this allows the
application to override that.
While this option accepts a 'long', a port number is an unsigned 16 bit number
and therefore using a port number lower than zero or over 65535 causes a
**CURLE_BAD_FUNCTION_ARGUMENT** error.
# DEFAULT
By default this is 0 which makes it not used. This also makes port number zero
impossible to set with this API.
# PROTOCOLS
Used for all protocols that speak to a port number.
# EXAMPLE
~~~c
int main(void)
{
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
CURLcode res;
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/foo.bin");
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PORT, 8080L);
res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}
}
~~~
# AVAILABILITY
Always
# RETURN VALUE
Returns CURLE_OK