CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT(3)

NAME
CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT - set low speed limit in bytes per second

SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h> CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT, long speedlimit);

DESCRIPTION
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

EXAMPLE
curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, url);
  /* 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);
}

AVAILABILITY
Always

RETURN VALUE
Returns CURLE_OK

SEE ALSO
CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME(3), CURLOPT_TIMEOUT(3),