curl/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS.md

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

• CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT (3)
• CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT (3)
• CURLOPT_TCP_KEEPALIVE (3)
• CURLOPT_TIMEOUT (3) Protocol:
• All Added-in: 7.16.2 ---

NAME

CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS - maximum time the transfer is allowed to complete

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

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

DESCRIPTION

Pass a long as parameter containing timeout - the maximum time in milliseconds that you allow the libcurl transfer operation to take.

See CURLOPT_TIMEOUT(3) for details.

DEFAULT

0 (zero) which means it never times out during transfer.

%PROTOCOLS%

EXAMPLE

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

    /* complete within 20000 milliseconds */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS, 20000L);

    curl_easy_perform(curl);
  }
}

%AVAILABILITY%

RETURN VALUE

Returns CURLE_OK