curlVersion {RCurl} | R Documentation

## Information describing the Curl library

### Description

This function queries the Curl library to provide information about its characteristics when it was compiled. This tells the user about its capabilities and can be used to determine strategies.

### Usage

    curlVersion(id = 0)

### Arguments

`id` |

### Value

A list

`age` | integer giving the number of this libcurl, 0 is FIRST, 1 is SECOND, 2 is THIRD
`version` | the version identifier as a string, e.g. `"7.12.0"`
`version_num` | the value as an integer
`host` | the machine on which the libcurl was configured/built.
`features` | a named integer vector of bits indicating what features of libcurl were configured and built into this version. These are features such as ipv6, ssl, libz, largefile, ntlm (Microsoft "authorization").
`ssl_version` | the string identifying the SSL version.
`ssl_version_num` | the number identifying the SSL version
`libz_version` | the string identifying the version of libz.
`protocols` | a character vector of the supported HTTP protocols, e.g. http, https, ftp, ldap, gopher, telnet
`ares` | name of the asynchronous DNS (domain name service) lookup library. This is often simply the empty string indicating it is not there.
`ares_num` | the number for the ares library
`libidn` | the name of the IDN (internationalized domain names) library being used. This field only appears in version 3 of libcurl. If you are using version 2 (e.g. curl-7.11.2), this will be `NA`. An empty string indicates that the field is present, but has no value.

See the man page for `curl_version_info` for a description of these fields. `features` in R is a named integer vector detailing the different features.

### Author(s)

Duncan Temple Lang <duncan@wald.ucdavis.edu>

### References

Curl homepage http://curl.haxx.se

### See Also

`curl_version_info` in the libcurl documentation.

### Examples

      curlVersion()

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