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CURL.SetOptionInterface

This sets the interface name to use as outgoing network interface.

Component Version macOS Windows Linux Server iOS SDK
CURL 2.5 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes
MBS( "CURL.SetOptionInterface"; curl; Value { ; Encoding } )   More

Parameters

Parameter Description Example Flags
curl The CURL session handle. $curl
Value Interface name. en0
Encoding The text encoding for text parameter.
Default is UTF-8.
Possible encoding names: ANSI, ISO-8859-1, Latin1, Mac, Native, UTF-8, DOS, Hex, Base64 or Windows. More listed in the FAQ.		 "utf8" Optional

Result

Returns "OK" on success.

Description

This sets the interface name to use as outgoing network interface.
The name can be an interface name, an IP address, or a host name.

See also INTERFACE option in CURL manual.

Examples

Try with an explicit interface:

Set Variable [ $curl ; Value: MBS("CURL.New") ]
# put in some URL
Set Variable [ $r ; Value: MBS("CURL.SetOptionURL"; $curl; "https://www.monkeybreadsoftware.com/filemaker/examples/test.txt") ]
# Request which interface to use
Set Variable [ $r ; Value: MBS("CURL.SetOptionInterface"; $curl; "en0") ]
# perform request
Set Variable [ $result ; Value: MBS("CURL.Perform"; $curl) ]
# check result
Set Field [ CURL Test::Debug Messages ; Value: MBS("CURL.GetDebugMessages"; $curl) ]
Set Field [ CURL Test::Result ; Value: MBS("CURL.GetResultAsText"; $curl) ]
# cleanup
Set Variable [ $result ; Value: MBS("CURL.Release"; $curl) ]

See also

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Created 18th August 2014, last changed 24th February 2026


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