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1---
2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
4Title: CURLINFO_RETRY_AFTER
5Section: 3
6Source: libcurl
7See-also:
8  - CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION (3)
9  - CURLOPT_STDERR (3)
10  - curl_easy_header (3)
11Protocol:
12  - All
13Added-in: 7.66.0
14---
15
16# NAME
17
18CURLINFO_RETRY_AFTER - returns the Retry-After retry delay
19
20# SYNOPSIS
21
22~~~c
23#include <curl/curl.h>
24
25CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *handle, CURLINFO_RETRY_AFTER,
26                           curl_off_t *retry);
27~~~
28
29# DESCRIPTION
30
31Pass a pointer to a curl_off_t variable to receive the number of seconds the
32HTTP server suggests the client should wait until the next request is
33issued. The information from the "Retry-After:" header.
34
35While the HTTP header might contain a fixed date string, the
36CURLINFO_RETRY_AFTER(3) always returns the number of seconds to wait -
37or zero if there was no header or the header could not be parsed.
38
39This option used to return a negative wait time if the server provided a date
40in the past. Since 8.12.0, a negative wait time is returned as zero. In any
41case we recommend checking that the wait time is within an acceptable range for
42your circumstance.
43
44# DEFAULT
45
46Zero if there was no header.
47
48# %PROTOCOLS%
49
50# EXAMPLE
51
52~~~c
53int main(void)
54{
55  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
56  if(curl) {
57    CURLcode res;
58    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
59    res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
60    if(res == CURLE_OK) {
61      curl_off_t wait = 0;
62      curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_RETRY_AFTER, &wait);
63      if(wait)
64        printf("Wait for %" CURL_FORMAT_CURL_OFF_T " seconds\n", wait);
65    }
66    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
67  }
68}
69~~~
70
71# %AVAILABILITY%
72
73# RETURN VALUE
74
75curl_easy_getinfo(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error.
76
77CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error occurred, see
78libcurl-errors(3).
79