CURLINFO_RETRY_AFTER(3) Library Functions Manual CURLINFO_RETRY_AFTER(3)
NAME
CURLINFO_RETRY_AFTER - returns the Retry-After retry delay
SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_RETRY_AFTER,
curl_off_t *retry);
DESCRIPTION
Pass a pointer to a curl_off_t variable to receive the number of seconds
the HTTP server suggests the client should wait until the next request
is issued. The information from the "Retry-After:" header.
While the HTTP header might contain a fixed date string, the
CURLINFO_RETRY_AFTER(3) always returns the number of seconds to wait -
or zero if there was no header or the header could not be parsed.
This option used to return a negative wait time if the server provided a
date in the past. Since 8.12.0, a negative wait time is returned as
zero. In any case we recommend checking that the wait time is within an
acceptable range for your circumstance.
DEFAULT
Zero if there was no header.
PROTOCOLS
This functionality affects all supported protocols
EXAMPLE
int main(void)
{
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
CURLcode res;
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
if(res == CURLE_OK) {
curl_off_t wait = 0;
curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_RETRY_AFTER, &wait);
if(wait)
printf("Wait for %" CURL_FORMAT_CURL_OFF_T " seconds\n", wait);
}
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}
}
AVAILABILITY
Added in curl 7.66.0
RETURN VALUE
curl_easy_getinfo(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_HEADERFUNCTION(3), CURLOPT_STDERR(3), curl_easy_header(3)
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