timeout: Set maximum request time.

In httr: Tools for Working with URLs and HTTP

Set maximum request time.

Description

Set maximum request time.

Usage

timeout(seconds)

Arguments

seconds

number of seconds to wait for a response until giving up. Can not be less than 1 ms.

Details

This timeout is passed on to curl::handle_setopt(). See there and curl::curl_options() for more details.

See Also

Other config: add_headers(), authenticate(), config(), set_cookies(), use_proxy(), user_agent(), verbose()

Examples

## Not run: 
GET("http://httpbin.org/delay/3", timeout(1))
GET("http://httpbin.org/delay/1", timeout(2))

## End(Not run)

httr documentation built on Aug. 15, 2023, 9:08 a.m.