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  1. c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
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  2. SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
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  3. Long: keepalive-time
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  4. Arg: <seconds>
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  5. Help: Interval time for keepalive probes
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  6. Added: 7.18.0
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  7. Category: connection
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  8. Example: --keepalive-time 20 $URL
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  9. See-also: no-keepalive max-time
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  10. Multi: single
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  11. ---
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  12. This option sets the time a connection needs to remain idle before sending
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  13. keepalive probes and the time between individual keepalive probes. It is
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  14. currently effective on operating systems offering the TCP_KEEPIDLE and
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  15. TCP_KEEPINTVL socket options (meaning Linux, recent AIX, HP-UX and more).
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  16. Keepalives are used by the TCP stack to detect broken networks on idle
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  17. connections. The number of missed keepalive probes before declaring the
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  18. connection down is OS dependent and is commonly 9 or 10. This option has no
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  19. effect if --no-keepalive is used.
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  21. If unspecified, the option defaults to 60 seconds.
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