max-time.d 613 B

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  1. Long: max-time
  2. Short: m
  3. Arg: <fractional seconds>
  4. Help: Maximum time allowed for transfer
  5. See-also: connect-timeout
  6. Category: connection
  7. Example: --max-time 10 $URL
  8. Example: --max-time 2.92 $URL
  9. Added: 4.0
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  11. Maximum time in seconds that you allow the whole operation to take. This is
  12. useful for preventing your batch jobs from hanging for hours due to slow
  13. networks or links going down. Since 7.32.0, this option accepts decimal
  14. values, but the actual timeout will decrease in accuracy as the specified
  15. timeout increases in decimal precision.
  16. If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.