Hi!

I'm using Win32. That's mean that I can't set a timeout on curl? In case the
site doesn't exist the curl will hang forever?

Shlomit.

At 10:09 21/01/01 -0800, you wrote:
>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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Received on 2001-01-22