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¶

This functionality affects all supported 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¶

Added in curl 7.16.2

RETURN VALUE¶

Returns CURLE_OK

SEE ALSO¶

CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT(3), CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT(3), CURLOPT_TCP_KEEPALIVE(3), CURLOPT_TIMEOUT(3)