For curl: --connect-timeout = Times out if the connection wasn't established within N seconds --max-time = Times out if the entire request wasn't completed wi

For curl: --connect-timeout = Times out if the connection wasn't established within N seconds --max-time = Times out if the entire request wasn't completed within N seconds But then I don't remember if connect-timeout takes DNS lookups into account, or TLS handshakes. I seem to remember there is another sort of timeout that tends to be hard to get right when the connections are flaky/drops a lot of packets, so you end up having to wrap curl anyways if you want a hard limit on the timeout.