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-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.36
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index 2f7e40e26..7cf9a0408 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -1970,9 +1970,9 @@ re-use (default behavior).
.IP 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). See also the \fICURLOPT_TIMEOUT\fP option.
+it has connected, this option is of no more use. Set to zero to switch to the
+default built-in connection timeout - 300 seconds. See also the
+\fICURLOPT_TIMEOUT\fP option.
In unix-like systems, this might cause signals to be used unless
\fICURLOPT_NOSIGNAL\fP is set.