CURLOPT_ACCEPTTIMEOUT_MS(3) Library Functions ManualCURLOPT_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
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), CUR-
LOPT_STDERR(3)
libcurl 2026-07-12 CURLOPT_ACCEPTTIMEOUT_MS(3)
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