CURLINFO_RETRY_AFTER - After retry delay
#include <curl/curl.h> CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_RETRY_AFTER, curl_off_t *retry);
CURLINFO_RETRY_AFTER(3) curl_easy_getinfo options CURLINFO_RETRY_AFTER(3)
NAME
CURLINFO_RETRY_AFTER - returns the Retry-After retry delay
SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_RETRY_AFTER,
curl_off_t *retry);
DESCRIPTION
Pass a pointer to a curl_off_t variable to receive the number of sec-
onds the HTTP server suggests the client should wait until the next
request is issued. The information from the "Retry-After:" header.
While the HTTP header might contain a fixed date string, the
CURLINFO_RETRY_AFTER(3) will always return number of seconds to wait -
or zero if there was no header or the header could not be parsed.
DEFAULT
Returns zero delay if there was no header.
PROTOCOLS
HTTP(S)
EXAMPLE
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
CURLcode res;
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
if(res == CURLE_OK) {
curl_off_t wait = 0;
curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_RETRY_AFTER, &wait);
if(wait)
printf("Wait for %" CURL_FORMAT_CURL_OFF_T " seconds\n", wait);
}
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}
AVAILABILITY
Added in 7.66.0
RETURN VALUE
Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION
if not.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | web/curl |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+------------------+
SEE ALSO
CURLOPT_STDERR(3), CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION(3),
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from https://curl.se/down-
load/curl-7.83.1.tar.bz2.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at http://curl.haxx.se/.
libcurl 7.83.1 November 26, 2021 CURLINFO_RETRY_AFTER(3)