GNURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME(3)

💅 NAME 💅

okay so bestie, this is the GNURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME(3) page from the curl_easy_setopt options family — and the actual star of the show is:

CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME - set low speed limit time period ✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <gnurl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME, long
speedtime);

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Pass a long as parameter. It contains the time in number seconds that the transfer speed should be below CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT(3) for the library to consider it too slow and abort. literally the "if you're moving slower than this for this long, we're done here" vibe 👑.

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🎀 DEFAULT 🎀

0, disabled 💤

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🌈 PROTOCOLS 🌈

All 🫶

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🔥 EXAMPLE 🔥

curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, url);
  /* abort if slower than 30 bytes/sec during 60 seconds */
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME, 60L);
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT, 30L);
  res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
  if(CURLE_OPERATION_TIMEDOUT == res) {
    printf("Timeout!\n");
  }
  /* always cleanup */
  curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}

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🧚 AVAILABILITY 🧚

Always 💖

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⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

Returns CURLE_OK 😌

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🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT(3)
• CURLOPT_TIMEOUT(3)

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mwah 💋 this little manual moment comes from libcurl 7.37.0, dated 17 Jun 2014, and it lives under GNURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME(3) — bye bestie, slay your transfers 🫶✨