CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION(3)

CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION3

Select condition for a time request

Usage

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

Overview

Pass a long as parameter. This defines how the CURLOPT_TIMEVALUE(3) time value is treated. You can set this parameter to CURL_TIMECOND_IFMODSINCE or CURL_TIMECOND_IFUNMODSINCE.

The last modification time of a file is not always known and in such instances this feature has no effect even if the given time condition would not have been met. curl_easy_getinfo(3) with the CURLINFO_CONDITION_UNMET option can be used after a transfer to learn if a zero-byte successful "transfer" was due to this condition not matching.

Default

CURL_TIMECOND_NONE (0)

Protocols

HTTP, FTP, RTSP, and FILE

Examples

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
    /* January 1, 2020 is 1577833200 */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_TIMEVALUE, 1577833200L);
    /* If-Modified-Since the above time stamp */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION,
                     (long)CURL_TIMECOND_IFMODSINCE);
    /* Perform the request */
    curl_easy_perform(curl);
  }
}

Return value

Returns CURLE_OK

Releases

79 releases since OS X 10.10; the text changed 13 times.

  1. 10.10–10.11.6
  2. 10.12–10.12.5
  3. 10.12.6–10.14.6
  4. 10.15–11.5
  5. 12.0.1–12.2
  6. 12.3–12.5
  7. 13.0
  8. 13.1
  9. 13.2
  10. 13.3
  11. 13.4
  12. 13.5–14.1
  13. 14.2–14.4
  14. 14.5–26.5

Availability

Always

From curl 166.0.0.0.1 in macOS 26.5. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.