# HttpProtect.ttl property · @imqueue/http-protect

Source: https://imqueue.org/api/http-protect/latest/http-protect.httpprotect.ttl/
Published: 2026-08-01
Author: @imqueue maintainers (https://github.com/imqueue)
Package: @imqueue/http-protect 3.0.1 — generated reference, not hand-written

The resolved idle timeout in seconds, from [HttpProtectOptions.ttl](https://imqueue.org/api/http-protect/latest/http-protect.httpprotectoptions.ttl/), `HTTP_PROTECT_TTL`, or 10.

**Signature:**

```typescript
readonly ttl: number;
```

## Remarks

Applied to a counter key on every request from that address, so it bounds the gap between requests rather than the age of the count. An address that never pauses this long keeps one counter for as long as it keeps asking.