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CURLOPT_ACCEPTTIMEOUT_MS

Section: curl_easy_setopt options (3)
Updated: March 06, 2016
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NAME

CURLOPT_ACCEPTTIMEOUT_MS - timeout waiting for FTP server to connect back

SYNOPSIS

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_ACCEPTTIMEOUT_MS, long ms);

DESCRIPTION

Pass a long telling libcurl the maximum number of milliseconds to wait for a server to connect back to libcurl when an active FTP connection is used.

DEFAULT

60000 milliseconds

PROTOCOLS

FTP

EXAMPLE

CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "ftp://example.com/path/file");

  /* wait no more than 5 seconds for FTP server responses */
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_ACCEPTTIMEOUT_MS, 5000L);

  curl_easy_perform(curl);
}

AVAILABILITY

Added in 7.24.0

RETURN VALUE

Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.