Shlomit Lisser wrote:
>
> This might be an old solved problem, but going through the mailing lists
> didn't get me anywhere.
> I would like to know if the -m option works?

Are you on Win32 or unix? If unix, which one? Basically, the way curl
sets a timeout is to use your systems alarm() function (see 'man alarm')
to send itself a SIGALRM after the specified number of secs; on Win32
it's non-op, and perhaps on your unix it's not working?

-te

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