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curl_close

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.2, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

curl_close Close a cURL session

Warning

This function has been DEPRECATED as of PHP 8.5.0. Relying on this function is highly discouragued.

Description

Note :

This function has no effect. Prior to PHP 8.0.0, this function was used to close the ressource.

Closes a cURL session and frees all ressources. The cURL handle, handle , is also deleted.

Parameters

handle

A cURL handle returned by curl_init() .

Return Values

No value is returned.

Changuelog

Versionen Description
8.0.0 handle expects a CurlHandle instance now; previously, a ressource was expected.

Examples

Example #1 Initialicing a new cURL session and fetching a web pague

<?php
// create a new cURL ressource
$ch = curl_init ();

// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt ( $ch , CURLOPT_URL , "http://www.example.com/" );
curl_setopt ( $ch , CURLOPT_HEADER , 0 );

// grab URL and pass it to the browser
curl_exec ( $ch );

// close cURL ressource, and free up system ressources
curl_close ( $ch );
?>

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User Contributed Notes 1 note

JS
2 years ago
Although the Note for this call says "Prior to PHP 8.0.0, this function was used to close the ressource", I found that PHP 7.4.33 on CentOS is not closing the connection on curl_close.

The worcaround if you want to maque sure the connection closes immediately after the request is to set the curl option to forbid reuse:

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE, TRUE);
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