'Telegram bot long polling stops at 50s

I wrote a simple C++ program where I use libcurl to send a HTTP POST request at getUpdates URL with the parameter timeout=3600 but it returns after 50 seconds instead of the 1 hour required.

Does anybody know how to set the Telegram long polling time longer than 50 seconds?

Thanks, Simone



Solution 1:[1]

This isn't a problem with your code, I found the same problem with my python implementation. 50sec seems to be the maximum.

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