| c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. |
| SPDX-License-Identifier: curl |
| Long: max-time |
| Short: m |
| Arg: <fractional seconds> |
| Help: Maximum time allowed for transfer |
| See-also: connect-timeout retry-max-time |
| Category: connection |
| Example: --max-time 10 $URL |
| Example: --max-time 2.92 $URL |
| Added: 4.0 |
| Multi: single |
| --- |
| Maximum time in seconds that you allow each transfer to take. This is |
| useful for preventing your batch jobs from hanging for hours due to slow |
| networks or links going down. Since 7.32.0, this option accepts decimal |
| values, but the actual timeout will decrease in accuracy as the specified |
| timeout increases in decimal precision. |
| |
| If you enable retrying the transfer (--retry) then the maximum time counter is |
| reset each time the transfer is retried. You can use --retry-max-time to limit |
| the retry time. |
| |
| The decimal value needs to provided using a dot (.) as decimal separator - not |
| the local version even if it might be using another separator. |
