curl/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION.md
Viktor Szakats d01d2ec9f1
docs: add CURLOPT type change history, drop casts where present
Some CURLOPT constants defined in the curl public headers were initially
enums (= ints), or macros with bare numeric values. Recent curl releases
upgraded them to `long` constants, to make them pass correctly to
`curl_easy_setop()` by default, i.e. without requiring a `(long)` cast.

This patch drops such casts from the examples embedded in the docs. At
the same time it documents which curl release made them `long` types,
to keep them useful when working with previous libcurl versions.

Also:
- drop a `(long)` cast that was never necessary.
- CURLOPT_ALTSVC_CTRL.md: bump local copy of macros to long.
- test1119: make it ignore symbols ending with an underscore, to skip
  wildcard, e.g. `**CURLAUTH_***`.

Closes #18130
2025-08-02 00:05:33 +02:00

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---
c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
Title: CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION
Section: 3
Source: libcurl
See-also:
- CURLINFO_FILETIME (3)
- CURLOPT_TIMEVALUE (3)
Protocol:
- HTTP
Added-in: 7.1
---
# NAME
CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION - select condition for a time request
# SYNOPSIS
~~~c
#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION, long cond);
~~~
# DESCRIPTION
Pass a long as parameter. This defines how the CURLOPT_TIMEVALUE(3) time
value is treated. You can set this parameter to *CURL_TIMECOND_IFMODSINCE*
or *CURL_TIMECOND_IFUNMODSINCE*.
The last modification time of a file is not always known and in such instances
this feature has no effect even if the given time condition would not have
been met. curl_easy_getinfo(3) with the *CURLINFO_CONDITION_UNMET*
option can be used after a transfer to learn if a zero-byte successful
"transfer" was due to this condition not matching.
# DEFAULT
CURL_TIMECOND_NONE (0)
# %PROTOCOLS%
# EXAMPLE
~~~c
int main(void)
{
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com");
/* January 1, 2020 is 1577833200 */
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_TIMEVALUE, 1577833200L);
/* If-Modified-Since the above time stamp */
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_TIMECONDITION, CURL_TIMECOND_IFMODSINCE);
/* Perform the request */
curl_easy_perform(curl);
}
}
~~~
# HISTORY
**CURL_TIMECOND_*** enums became `long` types in 8.13.0, prior to this version
a `long` cast was necessary when passed to curl_easy_setopt(3).
# %AVAILABILITY%
# RETURN VALUE
curl_easy_setopt(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error.
CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error occurred, see
libcurl-errors(3).