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CURL.SetOptionRandomFile

Sets random file.

Component Version macOS Windows Linux Server iOS SDK
CURL 2.5 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes

Deprecated

This function was deprecated.

MBS( "CURL.SetOptionRandomFile"; curl; Value { ; Encoding } )   More

Parameters

Parameter Description Example Flags
curl The CURL session handle. $curl
Value File path for SSL engine. "/tmp/test.txt"
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

Sets random file.
Pass a file path. The file will be used to read from to seed the random engine for SSL. The more random the specified file is, the more secure the SSL connection will become.

Starting with version 8.0 the plugin will always use UTF-8 encoding for file path on Linux and macOS. For macOS we also do the unicode character normalization for file names for you.

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Created 18th August 2014, last changed 21st December 2022


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