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

This functionality affects ftp only

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

Added in curl 7.24.0

RETURN VALUE

curl_easy_setopt(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error.

CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error occurred, see libcurl-errors(3).

SEE ALSO

CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS(3), CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION(3), CURLOPT_STDERR(3)