On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Mckinney, Ryan AG2 wrote:

> I am using cURL 7.9.4 with libcurl 7.9.4 (OpenSSL 0.9.6c). The
> machine is a LINUX with Red Hat 6.2. Has dual processors (don't know the
> speed but its not slow). Here is an example of the way I am using cURL.
> curl -O -s -u XXXX:XXXX https://natowx.sembach.af.mil/somegifimage.gif. I
> run a bunch of them under /bin/sh shell on a cronjob. would that be a
> problem?

No. But you should upgrade to 7.9.5, as the 7.9.4 has known SSL reading
problems that have since been fixed. Perhaps even those problems that you
experience.

> so is there a way to have cURL disconnect after grabbing the products I
> want?

It disconnects immediately when its done. I was referring to the cases when
it isn't done because it takes a very very veeeery long time to get the
response from the remote server.

> For some input, cURL is the only program we have found that I could get
> products from a https connection.

Yes, curl is quite capable these days.

> We tried a windows program and like windows crashed like you wouldn't
> belive.

Heh, you should try curl for windows instead! ;-)

> Sorry for not posting theis to the curl-users mailing list. and thanks for
> the quick respones. but the way, we are y'all located at?

I'm in Sweden, northern Europe. But we have contributors, supporters,
patchers, bug reporters, whiners, helpers and coders from all over the world.
Literaly.

We have 78 people mentioned in docs/THANKS for non-trivial contributions. I
get help, ideas, reports, suggestions from something like 10-15 different new
people every week, and then there are the usual friends and developers on the
mailing lists...

I wouldn't exaggerate if I say that at least 300 different persons have
contributed to what curl is today.

-- 
  Daniel Stenberg