There's a very
distinctive
differencebetween these two configurations within cURL. I'll try to definethe
mfor you, and then provide you a very common example which I shareto people who I teach about cURL.
CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT isdesigned to tell the script how long to wait to make a successfulconnection to the server before starting to buffer the output. Adestination's server which may be overloaded, offline or crashedwould probably make this setting
becomeuseful.
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT isdesigned to tell the script how long to wait to receive acompletely buffered output from the server. A destination's hugefile, slow connection speeds or slow rendering would probably makethis setting become useful.
A good example of where these will both apply to, is when you'retelling cUR Lto downloada MP3 file. C URLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUTwo uldbe
s
et
atab
out10 seconds w
hichwo
uldmea
nth
atif
nores
ponse
isprovided within 10 seconds then the script will abort,a
ndCURLOPT_TI
M
EOUTw
ouldbe set at
abou
t100 s
econdswhich w
ouldmea
nif the M
P3has no
tdownlo
aded
within100 seconds then abort the s
cript.It's the best way of explaining it to developers.
CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT
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