---

c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, daniel@haxx.se, et al. SPDX-License-Identifier: curl Title: CURLOPT_ACCEPTTIMEOUT_MS Section: 3 Source: libcurl See-also:

• CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS (3)
• CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION (3)
• CURLOPT_STDERR (3)
• CURLOPT_FTPPORT (3) Protocol:
• FTP Added-in: 7.24.0

---

NAME

CURLOPT_ACCEPTTIMEOUT_MS - timeout waiting for FTP server to connect back

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_ACCEPTTIMEOUT_MS, long ms);

DESCRIPTION

Pass a long telling libcurl the maximum number of milliseconds to wait for a server to connect back to libcurl when an active FTP connection is used. When active FTP is used, the client (libcurl) tells the server to do a TCP connect back to the client, instead of vice versa for passive FTP.

This option has no purpose for passive FTP.

DEFAULT

60000 milliseconds

%PROTOCOLS%

EXAMPLE

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "ftp://example.com/path/file");

    /* wait no more than 5 seconds for the FTP server to connect */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_ACCEPTTIMEOUT_MS, 5000L);

    curl_easy_perform(curl);
  }
}

%AVAILABILITY%

RETURN VALUE

curl_easy_setopt(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error.

CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error occurred, see libcurl-errors(3).