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c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, daniel@haxx.se, et al. SPDX-License-Identifier: curl Long: no-keepalive Help: Disable TCP keepalive on the connection Category: connection Added: 7.18.0 Multi: boolean See-also:

• keepalive-time Example:
• --no-keepalive $URL

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--no-keepalive

Disables the use of keepalive messages on the TCP connection. curl otherwise enables them by default.

Note that this is the negated option name documented. You can thus use --keepalive to enforce keepalive.