CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT

Section: curl_easy_setopt options (3)
Updated: February 03, 2016
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NAME

CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT - timeout for the connect phase  

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, long timeout);  

DESCRIPTION

Pass a long. It should contain the maximum time in seconds that you allow the connection phase to the server to take. This only limits the connection phase, it has no impact once it has connected. Set to zero to switch to the default built-in connection timeout - 300 seconds. See also the CURLOPT_TIMEOUT(3) option.

In unix-like systems, this might cause signals to be used unless CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL(3) is set.  

DEFAULT

300  

PROTOCOLS

All  

EXAMPLE

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

  /* complete connection within 10 seconds */
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10L);

  curl_easy_perform(curl);
}

 

AVAILABILITY

Always  

RETURN VALUE

Returns CURLE_OK  

SEE ALSO

CURLOPT_TIMEOUT(3), CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT(3),

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