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CURLOPT_ACCEPTTIMEOUT_MS(3) Library Functions Manual CURLOPT_ACCEPTTIMEOUT_MS(3)

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

Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.

SEE ALSO

CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS(3), CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION(3), CURLOPT_STDERR(3)
2025-05-14 libcurl
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