CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME(3)

💅 CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME 💅

ok so real talk bestie, you're reading the CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME(3) page from the Library Functions Manual and honestly? it's a good one. let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME — literally the time for all the redirection steps, every single one of them 🌀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME,
                           double *timep);

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so you pass a pointer to a double — like, an actual double * — and it gets filled in with the total time, in seconds, that it took for all the redirection steps 🫶

and when we say all the steps, we mean all of them no cap: name lookup, connect, pretransfer, and transfer — everything that happened before the final transaction was started. the whole lil journey before the main event, iykyk ✨

and bestie, CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME(3) contains the complete execution time for multiple redirections — so if you got bounced around like five times, this is the grand total of all that bouncing 🎀

also!! peep the TIMES overview section in the curl_easy_getinfo(3) man page, it's giving bonus lore 💜

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🌈 PROTOCOLS 🌈

this functionality affects http only 💅 periodt

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🔥 EXAMPLE 🔥

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    CURLcode result;
    double redirect;
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
    result = curl_easy_perform(curl);
    if(CURLE_OK == result) {
      result = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME, &redirect);
      if(CURLE_OK == result) {
        printf("Time: %.1f", redirect);
      }
    }
    /* always cleanup */
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }
}

main character energy fr fr 👑 notice the /* always cleanup */ comment — that's not decoration bestie, that's a lifestyle 🧚

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⭐ AVAILABILITY ⭐

added in curl 7.9.7 — she's been iconic for a minute 💖

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🍓 RETURN VALUE 🍓

curl_easy_getinfo(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error, okurrr 💀

• CURLE_OK (0) — means everything was OK, slay 🎉
• non-zero — means an error occurred 😭 see libcurl-errors(3) for the deets

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• CURLINFO_REDIRECT_COUNT(3)
• CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME_T(3)
• CURLINFO_REDIRECT_URL(3)
• curl_easy_getinfo(3)
• curl_easy_setopt(3)

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alright bestie that's the whole page, go measure some redirects 💅✨

libcurl · 2026-10-12 · CURLINFO_REDIRECT_TIME(3) — mwah, ily, go read the source 🫶💜