Hi!

try
curl -m 1 https://abc.com

At 09:33 22/01/01 +0100, you wrote:
>On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Shlomit Lisser wrote:
>
> > I'm using Win32. That's mean that I can't set a timeout on curl?
>
>The timeout functionality is somewhat crippled on win32 since it doesn't work
>on the connect or DNS lookup functions. This will be solved when "we" rewrite
>curl to do non-blocking connects and asynch name lookups.
>
> > In case the site doesn't exist the curl will hang forever?
>
>No. If the name doesn't exist, the name resolver will return error and curl
>will return error. If the connect doesn't succeed, curl will return error
>etc. In fact, all system calls should return error if not successful. On
>which system call does curl "hang forever" ?
>
>--
> Daniel Stenberg -- curl project maintainer -- http://curl.haxx.se/
Received on 2001-01-22