curl/docs/cmdline-opts/keepalive-cnt.md

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c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, daniel@haxx.se, et al. SPDX-License-Identifier: curl Long: keepalive-cnt Arg: Help: Maximum number of keepalive probes Added: 8.9.0 Category: connection Multi: single See-also:

• keepalive-time
• no-keepalive Example:
• --keepalive-cnt 3 $URL ---

--keepalive-cnt

Set the maximum number of keepalive probes TCP should send but get no response before dropping the connection. This option is usually used in conjunction with --keepalive-time.

This option is supported on Linux, *BSD/macOS, Windows >=10.0.16299, Solaris 11.4, and recent AIX, HP-UX and more. This option has no effect if --no-keepalive is used.

If unspecified, the option defaults to 9.