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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.

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 FTP server responses */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_ACCEPTTIMEOUT_MS, 5000L);
 
    curl_easy_perform(curl);
  }
}

Availability

Added in curl 7.24.0

Return value

Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.

See also

CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS(3), CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION(3), CURLOPT_STDERR(3)

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