CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS(3)

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

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

Protocols

All

Examples

int main(void)
{
  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);
  }
}

Return value

Returns CURLE_OK

Releases

79 releases since OS X 10.10; the text changed 14 times.

  1. 10.10–10.10.4
  2. 10.10.5–10.11.6
  3. 10.12–10.12.5
  4. 10.12.6–10.14.6
  5. 10.15–11.5
  6. 12.0.1–12.2
  7. 12.3–12.5
  8. 13.0
  9. 13.1
  10. 13.2
  11. 13.3
  12. 13.4
  13. 13.5–14.1
  14. 14.2–14.4
  15. 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.