CURLOPT_TIMEVALUE

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

CURLOPT_TIMEVALUE - set time value for conditional  

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_TIMEVALUE, long val);  

DESCRIPTION

Pass a long val as parameter. This should be the time counted as seconds since 1 Jan 1970, and the time will be used in a condition as specified with CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION(3).  

DEFAULT

0  

PROTOCOLS

HTTP, FTP, RTSP, and FILE  

EXAMPLE

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

  /* Perform the request */
  curl_easy_perform(curl);
}

 

AVAILABILITY

Always  

RETURN VALUE

Returns CURLE_OK  

SEE ALSO

CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION(3),

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