CURLOPT_ACCEPTTIMEOUT_MS explained
Name
CURLOPT_ACCEPTTIMEOUT_MS - timeout waiting for FTP server to connect back
Synopsis
#include <curl/curl.h> CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_ACCEPTTIMEOUT_MS, long ms);
Description
Pass a long telling libcurl the maximum number of milliseconds to wait for a server to connect back to libcurl when an active FTP connection is used. When active FTP is used, the client (libcurl) tells the server to do a TCP connect back to the client, instead of vice versa for passive FTP.
This option has no purpose for passive FTP.
Default
60000 milliseconds
Protocols
This functionality affects ftp only
Example
int main(void) { CURL *curl = curl_easy_init(); if(curl) { curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "ftp://example.com/path/file"); /* wait no more than 5 seconds for the FTP server to connect */ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_ACCEPTTIMEOUT_MS, 5000L); curl_easy_perform(curl); } }
Availability
Added in curl 7.24.0
Return value
curl_easy_setopt returns a CURLcode indicating success or error.
CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error occurred, see libcurl-errors.
See also
CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS(3), CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION(3), CURLOPT_FTPPORT(3), CURLOPT_STDERR(3)
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