curl/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_ACCEPTTIMEOUT_MS.md

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

• CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS (3)
• CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION (3)
• CURLOPT_STDERR (3) Protocol:
• FTP Added-in: 7.24.0 ---

NAME

CURLOPT_ACCEPTTIMEOUT_MS - timeout waiting for FTP server to connect back

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_ACCEPTTIMEOUT_MS, long ms);

DESCRIPTION

Pass a long telling libcurl the maximum number of milliseconds to wait for a server to connect back to libcurl when an active FTP connection is used.

DEFAULT

60000 milliseconds

%PROTOCOLS%

EXAMPLE

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

    /* wait no more than 5 seconds for FTP server responses */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_ACCEPTTIMEOUT_MS, 5000L);

    curl_easy_perform(curl);
  }
}

%AVAILABILITY%

RETURN VALUE

Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.