CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME_T(3)

CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME_T3

Time for all redirection steps

Usage

#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME_T,
                           curl_off_t *timep);

Overview

Pass a pointer to a curl_off_t to receive the total time, in microseconds, it took for all redirection steps include name lookup, connect, pretransfer and transfer before final transaction was started. CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME_T(3) holds the complete execution time for multiple redirections.

See also the TIMES overview in the curl_easy_getinfo(3) man page.

Protocols

This functionality affects http only

Examples

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    CURLcode result;
    curl_off_t redirect;
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
    result = curl_easy_perform(curl);
    if(result == CURLE_OK) {
      result = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME_T, &redirect);
      if(result == CURLE_OK) {
        printf("Time: %" CURL_FORMAT_CURL_OFF_T ".%06ld", redirect / 1000000,
               (long)(redirect % 1000000));
      }
    }
    /* always cleanup */
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }
}

Return value

curl_easy_getinfo(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error.

CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error occurred, see libcurl-errors(3).

Releases

5 releases since Debian 10 (Buster); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 10
  2. 11
  3. 12
  4. 13
  5. Arch

Availability

Added in curl 7.61.0

From curl 8.23.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.