GNURLOPT_TIMEVALUE(3)

💅 GNURLOPT_TIMEVALUE(3) 💅

okay bestie so this is a page from the gnurl corner of the curl_easy_setopt options manual — yes, the whole squad of curl_easy_setopt pages, and this one is about setting a time value for conditional requests ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

CURLOPT_TIMEVALUE — set the time value for your conditional request, periodt 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <gnurl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_TIMEVALUE, long val);

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So you pass a long in as val. That's it, that's the vibe 💜

That number is the time counted as seconds since 1 Jan 1970 (yes, the epoch, we love a classic), and the time is gonna get used in a condition — the condition being whatever you specified with CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION(3). iykyk 💅

⚠️ okay real talk: on systems where long is 32 bit, this option cannot set dates beyond the year 2038 😭 not me being dramatic, that's literally the limit. Consider CURLOPT_TIMEVALUE_LARGE(3) instead and slay on 🫶

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🍓 DEFAULT 🍓

0

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🌈 PROTOCOLS 🌈

HTTP, FTP, RTSP, and FILE — she's versatile, she contains multitudes 💖

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🔥 EXAMPLE 🔥

CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com");

  /* January 1, 2020 is 1577833200 */
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_TIMEVALUE, 1577833200L);

  /* If-Modified-Since the above time stamp */
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION, CURL_TIMECOND_IFMODSINCE);

  /* Perform the request */
  curl_easy_perform(curl);
}

like look at her go 😭 the timestamp is doing the absolute most and she knows it 👑

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⭐ AVAILABILITY ⭐

Always. literally always, she's not going anywhere 💀🫶

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💫 RETURN VALUE 💫

Returns CURLE_OK — the good ending, no cap 🌸

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION(3),

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🎀 and that's the page bestie! brought to you by libcurl 7.37.0, dated 17 Jun 2014, filed under GNURLOPT_TIMEVALUE(3) — iconic behavior from start to finish, mwah 💋✨