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CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS explained

Name

CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS - maximum time the transfer is allowed to complete

Synopsis

#include <curl/curl.h>
 
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS, long timeout);

Description

Pass a long as parameter containing timeout - the maximum time in milliseconds that you allow the libcurl transfer operation to take.

See CURLOPT_TIMEOUT for details.

Default

Default timeout is 0 (zero) which means it never times out during transfer.

Protocols

All

Example

CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
 
  /* complete within 20000 milliseconds */
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS, 20000L);
 
  curl_easy_perform(curl);
}

Availability

Always

Return value

Returns CURLE_OK