Manpages - CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT.3

CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT - low speed limit in bytes per second

#include <curl/curl.h>

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT, long speedlimit);

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.

0, disabled

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  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);
  }

Always

Returns CURLE_OK

*CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME*(3), *CURLOPT_TIMEOUT*(3),