curl/docs/cmdline-opts/speed-time.md

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c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, daniel@haxx.se, et al. SPDX-License-Identifier: curl Long: speed-time Short: y Arg: Help: Trigger 'speed-limit' abort after this time Category: connection timeout Added: 4.7 Multi: single See-also:

• speed-limit
• limit-rate Example:
• --speed-limit 300 --speed-time 10 $URL ---

--speed-time

If a transfer runs slower than speed-limit bytes per second during a speed-time period, the transfer is aborted. If speed-time is used, the default speed-limit is 1 unless set with --speed-limit.

This option controls transfers (in both directions) but does not affect slow connects etc. If this is a concern for you, try the --connect-timeout option.