---
c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.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)
Protocol:
  - All
Added-in: 7.1
---

# 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 strongly discourage using this unreliable 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 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

0 which makes it not used. This also makes port number zero impossible to set
with this API.

# %PROTOCOLS%

# EXAMPLE

~~~c
int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    CURLcode result;
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/foo.bin");
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PORT, 8080L);
    result = curl_easy_perform(curl);
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }
}
~~~

# %AVAILABILITY%

# 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).
