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CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT(3) curl_easy_setopt options CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT(3)

NAME

CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT - set low speed limit in bytes per second

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT, long speedlimit);

DESCRIPTION

Pass a long as parameter. It contains the average transfer speed in bytes per second that the transfer should be below during CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME(3) seconds for libcurl to consider it to be too slow and abort.

DEFAULT

0, disabled

PROTOCOLS

All

EXAMPLE

curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, url);
  /* abort if slower than 30 bytes/sec during 60 seconds */
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME, 60L);
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT, 30L);
  res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
  if(CURLE_OPERATION_TIMEDOUT == res) {
    printf("Timeout!\n");
  }
  /* always cleanup */
  curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}

AVAILABILITY

Always

RETURN VALUE

Returns CURLE_OK

SEE ALSO

CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME(3), CURLOPT_TIMEOUT(3),
November 4, 2020 libcurl 7.74.0