## NAME

CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT - timeout for the connect phase

## SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, long timeout);

## DESCRIPTION

Pass a long. It should contain the maximum time in seconds that you allow the connection phase to the server to take. This only limits the connection phase, it has no impact once it has connected. Set to zero to switch to the default built-in connection timeout - 300 seconds. See also the CURLOPT_TIMEOUT option.

In unix-like systems, this might cause signals to be used unless CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL is set.

## DEFAULT

300

## PROTOCOLS

All

## EXAMPLE

    CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
    if(curl) {
      curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com");

      /* complete connection within 10 seconds */
      curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10L);

      curl_easy_perform(curl);
    }

## AVAILABILITY

Always

## RETURN VALUE

Returns CURLE_OK

## SEE ALSO

CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT

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