CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS3
Maximum time the transfer is allowed to complete
Usage
#include <curl/curl.h> CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS, long timeout);
Overview
Pass a long as parameter containing timeout - the maximum time in milliseconds that you allow the libcurl transfer operation to take.
See CURLOPT_TIMEOUT(3) for details.
Default
0 (zero) which means it never times out during transfer.
Protocols
This functionality affects all supported protocols
Examples
int main(void)
{
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
CURLcode result;
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
/* complete within 20000 milliseconds */
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS, 20000L);
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
7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 6 times.