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48<p class="level0"><a name="NAME"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">NAME</h2>
49<p class="level0">CURLOPT_TIMEOUT - set maximum time the request is allowed to take <a name="SYNOPSIS"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">SYNOPSIS</h2>
50<p class="level0">#include &lt;curl/curl.h&gt; 
51<p class="level0">CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, long timeout); <a name="DESCRIPTION"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">DESCRIPTION</h2>
52<p class="level0">Pass a long as parameter containing <span Class="emphasis">timeout</span> - the maximum time in seconds that you allow the libcurl transfer operation to take. Normally, name lookups can take a considerable time and limiting operations to less than a few minutes risk aborting perfectly normal operations. This option may cause libcurl to use the SIGALRM signal to timeout system calls. 
53<p class="level0">In unix-like systems, this might cause signals to be used unless <a Class="emphasis" href="/CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL.html">CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL</a> is set. 
54<p class="level0">Since this puts a hard limit for how long time a request is allowed to take, it has limited use in dynamic use cases with varying transfer times. You are then advised to explore <a Class="emphasis" href="/CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT.html">CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT</a>, <a Class="emphasis" href="/CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME.html">CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME</a> or using <a Class="emphasis" href="/CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION.html">CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION</a> to implement your own timeout logic. <a name="DEFAULT"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">DEFAULT</h2>
55<p class="level0">Default timeout is 0 (zero) which means it never times out during transfer. <a name="PROTOCOLS"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">PROTOCOLS</h2>
56<p class="level0">All <a name="EXAMPLE"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">EXAMPLE</h2>
57<p class="level0">TODO <a name="AVAILABILITY"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">AVAILABILITY</h2>
58<p class="level0">Always <a name="RETURN"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">RETURN VALUE</h2>
59<p class="level0">Returns CURLE_OK <a name="SEE"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">SEE ALSO</h2>
60<p class="level0"><a Class="manpage" href="/CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS.html">CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS</a> <span Class="manpage">  </span> <a Class="manpage" href="/CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT.html">CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT</a> <a Class="manpage" href="/CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT.html">CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT</a> <span Class="manpage"> </span> <p class="roffit">
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