CURLOPT_SERVER_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT_MS(3)

CURLOPT_SERVER_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT_MS3

Time allowed to wait for server response

Usage

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

Overview

Pass a long. It tells libcurl to wait no longer than timeout milliseconds for responses on sent commands. If no response is received within this period, the connection is considered dead and the transfer fails.

It is recommended that if used in conjunction with CURLOPT_TIMEOUT(3), you set CURLOPT_SERVER_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT_MS(3) to a value smaller than CURLOPT_TIMEOUT(3).

The maximum accepted value is 2147483648.

This is the millisecond version of CURLOPT_SERVER_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT(3).

Default

60000 milliseconds

Protocols

This functionality affects ftp, imap, pop3, scp, sftp and smtp

Examples

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    CURLcode result;
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "ftp://example.com/slow.txt");
    /* wait no more than 237 milliseconds */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SERVER_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT_MS, 237L);
    result = curl_easy_perform(curl);
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }
}

Return value

curl_easy_setopt(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

2 releases since Debian 13 (Trixie); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 13
  2. Arch

Availability

Added in curl 8.6.0

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