curl/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLINFO_RETRY_AFTER.md
Daniel Stenberg eefcc1bda4
docs: introduce "curldown" for libcurl man page format
curldown is this new file format for libcurl man pages. It is markdown
inspired with differences:

- Each file has a set of leading headers with meta-data
- Supports a small subset of markdown
- Uses .md file extensions for editors/IDE/GitHub to treat them nicely
- Generates man pages very similar to the previous ones
- Generates man pages that still convert nicely to HTML on the website
- Detects and highlights mentions of curl symbols automatically (when
  their man page section is specified)

tools:

- cd2nroff: converts from curldown to nroff man page
- nroff2cd: convert an (old) nroff man page to curldown
- cdall: convert many nroff pages to curldown versions
- cd2cd: verifies and updates a curldown to latest curldown

This setup generates .3 versions of all the curldown versions at build time.

CI:

Since the documentation is now technically markdown in the eyes of many
things, the CI runs many more tests and checks on this documentation,
including proselint, link checkers and tests that make sure we capitalize the
first letter after a period...

Closes #12730
2024-01-23 00:29:02 +01:00

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c SPDX-License-Identifier Title Section Source See-also
Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel.se>, et al. curl CURLINFO_RETRY_AFTER 3 libcurl
CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION (3)
CURLOPT_STDERR (3)
curl_easy_header (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 seconds 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) always returns the 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

int main(void)
{
  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.