CURLOPT_ACCEPTTIMEOUT_MS - timeout waiting for FTP server to connect back

Added in curl 7.24.0

60000 milliseconds

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.

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 FTP server responses */ curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_ACCEPTTIMEOUT_MS, 5000L); curl_easy_perform(curl); } }

CURLOPT_ACCEPTTIMEOUT_MS - timeout waiting for FTP server to connect back

This functionality affects ftp only

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).

CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS(3), CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION(3), CURLOPT_STDERR(3) libcurl 2025-06-16 CURLOPT_ACCEPTTIMEOUT_MS(3)

#include <curl/curl.h> CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_ACCEPTTIMEOUT_MS, long ms);