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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2001-03-15 14:37:17 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2001-03-15 14:37:17 +0000
commitd445eac162424bccdb1260bffa8964f75e0dc3b4 (patch)
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parente0a6d20e206b915ca4a0a45031d4170d933470f0 (diff)
connection timeout is now supported
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@@ -470,6 +470,15 @@ the more secure will the SSL connection become.
.B CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE
Pass a char * to the zero terminated path name to the Entropy Gathering Daemon
socket. It will be used to seed the random engine for SSL.
+.TP
+.B CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT
+Pass a long. It should contain the maximum time in seconds that you allow the
+connection to the server to take. This only limits the connection phase, once
+it has connected, this option is of no more use. Set to zero to disable
+connection timeout (it will then only timeout on the system's internal
+timeouts). This option doesn't work in win32 systems. See also the
+.I CURLOPT_TIMEOUT
+option.
.PP
.SH RETURN VALUE
0 means the option was set properly, non-zero means an error as