Default timeout of curl call using libcurl in c++

Question

My application(A) in c++ makes curl call to another machine to start another application(B). When curl call is made by A then it waits till B finishes it's job. So I just want to ask that what is the default timeout for application A or it is by default disables i.e infinite timeout ?

Answer 1

From http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html

CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT

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

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CURLOPT_TIMEOUT

Pass a long as parameter containing the maximum time in seconds that you allow the libcurl transfer operation to take. Normally, name lookups can take a considerable time and limiting operations to less than a few minutes risk aborting perfectly normal operations. This option will cause curl to use the SIGALRM to enable time-outing system calls.

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

Default timeout is 0 (zero) which means it never times out.