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@nicolas-grekas nicolas-grekas commented Nov 12, 2026

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This is an alternative to #23657, following the discussion there.

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETFUNCTION, function (CurlHandle $handle, string $address, int $port): bool {
    return false !== filter_var($address, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP, FILTER_FLAG_NO_PRIV_RANGE | FILTER_FLAG_NO_RES_RANGE);
});

The callback is called before connect(), so it can block requests to internal addresses. CURLOPT_PREREQFUNCTION can't do that because it's called once the connection is made.

This uses the libcurl option as suggested by @arnaud-lb, but the callback returns a bool instead of a socket. true lets libcurl create the socket, false makes libcurl try the next address. Returning a socket can be added later by widening the return type, and more arguments can be added at the end.

A UNIX socket is reported as its path with port 0, the same as CURLOPT_PREREQFUNCTION and CURLINFO_PRIMARY_IP do. There's no address family enum, since the address is enough to tell IPv4, IPv6 and UNIX sockets apart.

The commit is authored by @xavierleune since it reuses most of the code and tests of #23657.

/cc @bukka @TimWolla

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nicolas-grekas requested review from adoy and kocsismate as code owners November 12, 2026 09:24
@github-actions github-actions Bot added the Extension: curl label Nov 12, 2026
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nicolas-grekas force-pushed the curl-opensocketfunction branch from 8d3b3c7 to 36b4322 Compare November 12, 2026 09:35
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[RFC] ext/curl: Add CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETFUNCTION #25414
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ext/curl: Add CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETFUNCTION
96fd568
The callback is called after DNS resolution and before connect(), with the
address and the port libcurl is about to connect to. Returning true lets
libcurl create the socket, returning false refuses the address.

This makes it possible to block requests to internal addresses before any
connection is made, which CURLOPT_PREREQFUNCTION can't do.
@nicolas-grekas
nicolas-grekas force-pushed the curl-opensocketfunction branch from 36b4322 to 96fd568 Compare November 12, 2026 11:27
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