curl/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS.md

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c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, daniel@haxx.se, et al. SPDX-License-Identifier: curl Title: CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS Section: 3 Source: libcurl See-also:

• CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT (3)
• CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT (3)
• CURLOPT_TIMEOUT (3) Protocol:
• All ---

NAME

CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS - timeout for the connect phase

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

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

DESCRIPTION

Pass a long. It should contain the maximum time in milliseconds that you allow the connection phase to the server to take.

See CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT(3) for details.

DEFAULT

300000

EXAMPLE

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");

    /* complete connection within 10000 milliseconds */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS, 10000L);

    curl_easy_perform(curl);
  }
}

AVAILABILITY

Always

RETURN VALUE

Returns CURLE_OK