diff --git a/docs/examples/curlx.c b/docs/examples/curlx.c
index 09d27cc970c2334adbdef1be5413d3457629d610..9b1c29158d383dbce5dab9e46e2a4b2be794af40 100644
--- a/docs/examples/curlx.c
+++ b/docs/examples/curlx.c
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
   {
     FILE *outfp;
     BIO_get_fp(out,&outfp);
-    curl_easy_setopt(p.curl, CURLOPT_FILE,outfp);
+    curl_easy_setopt(p.curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, outfp);
   }
 
   res = curl_easy_setopt(p.curl, CURLOPT_SSL_CTX_FUNCTION, sslctxfun)  ;