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CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT(3)

CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT3

Low speed limit in bytes per second

Usage

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT,

long speedlimit);

Overview

Pass a long as parameter. It contains the average transfer speed in bytes per second that the transfer should be below during CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME(3) seconds for libcurl to consider it to be too slow and abort.

Default

0, disabled

Protocols

All

Examples

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    CURLcode res;
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
    /* abort if slower than 30 bytes/sec during 60 seconds */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME, 60L);
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT, 30L);
    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
    if(CURLE_OPERATION_TIMEDOUT == res) {
      printf("Timeout!\n");
    }
    /* always cleanup */
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }
}

Return value

Returns CURLE_OK

History

  • macOS 26.5 to macOS 14.5: the text shown here
  • macOS 14.4 to macOS 14.2
  • macOS 14.1 to macOS 13.5
  • macOS 13.4
  • macOS 13.3
  • macOS 13.2
  • macOS 13.1
  • macOS 13.0
  • macOS 12.5 to macOS 12.3
  • macOS 12.2 to macOS 12.0.1
  • macOS 11.5 to macOS 10.15
  • macOS 10.14.6 to macOS 10.12.6
  • macOS 10.12.5 to macOS 10.12
  • OS X 10.11.6 to OS X 10.10

Availability

Always

From curl 166.0.0.0.1 in macOS 26.5. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.