On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, SM wrote:

> I modified the url.c file in curl 7.7.1 to use non-blocking connects
> under win32 (attached url.c.diff file). You can define the connect
> timeout value with the "--connect-timeout" switch. If the connect
> timeout value is not set, a blocking connect will be used. Curl returns
> the "Connection timed out" error if there is a connection timeout.

Woa! Cool indeed. Thanks a lot.

A minor detail: we should take the socket back into blocking mode again after
the connection has been made.

I added that code before I committed the code to CVS.

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