I seem to have fixed my problems but this is what I found -
the server I am trying to access wants to use POST methods only.
The ASP pages on the server seem to hang on GET methods.

We seem to not be sending Content-Length headers unless we use
a POST method, which is fine but if I use a -X POST directive
and do not provide formdata with the -d switch, the server seems
to hang on the connection anyway.

Should we be sending Content-Length=0 in any case unless
formdata is present when Content-Length will be strlen (formdata) ?

On Fri, 26 May 2000 12:22:28 +0200 (MET DST), curl_at_contactor.se wrote:

> On Fri, 26 May 2000 kamadoll_at_excite.com wrote:
>
> > I am trying to connect to an HTTPS server with Curl-OpenSSL 0.9.4 For
> > some reason this particular server ends up timing out consistently - I
> > traced the problem to be the select call in download.c which is in a
> > timeout loop until the remote server closes the connection.
>
> Ouch. Have you verified this with the latest and greatest versions? curl
> 6.5.2, openssl 0.9.5a?
>
> > A parallel implementation based on the Micro$oft WinInet library
> > transacts the same business without a problem. Any clues ?
>
> Nope. As it obviously get problems in the middle of the download it isn't
> really a handshake bug but more like something that happens while
connected.
>
> > I can connect to other https servers just fine - its just the
particular
> > one which is an issue - and yes it is running IIS.
>
> Do you always get the exact same results? On any page? Is the server
around
> so I can have a go at it?
>
> --
> Daniel Stenberg - http://www.contactor.se/~dast - +46-705-44 31 77
> ech`echo xiun|tr nu oc|sed 'sx\([sx]\)\([xoi]\)xo un\2\1 is xg'`ol
>

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