hi daniel,

i have this bug report against 7.9.8, maybe you are able to fix it
before 7.10 is released.

as always you can read it also at http://bugs.debian.org/158173 .

cheers
cavok

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Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 11:04:40 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Bug#158173: curl: Timeout if proxy is down

Package: curl
Version: 7.9.8-2

...

I noticed that curl's timeout options, -y and -Y, don't work if
used with a proxy (the -x option) that happens to be down.

As I write this on 8/25/02, I can duplicate the bug with

        $ curl -y 5 -Y 240000 -x cobalt3.cotel.de:80 -o /dev/null http://www.wwu.edu/about/map/cmapsm.jpg

It should time out after five seconds, but doesn't.

I can see that the proxy is down with ping.

        $ ping -c 1 cobalt3.cotel.de
        PING cobalt3.cotel.de (217.29.1.2): 56 data bytes

        --- cobalt3.cotel.de ping statistics ---
        1 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

When I switch to a proxy that's up, such as fan.bravo.de:80, ping works and
curl times out.

The bug can be worked around by only running curl if ping works,
as follows:

     if ping -c 1 fan.bravo.de ; then
         curl -y 5 -Y 240000 -x fan.bravo.de:80 -o /dev/null http://www.wwu.edu/about/map/cmapsm.jpg
     else
         echo "proxy unavailable"
     fi

My ping times out after 10 seconds.

Please enhance curl so it also times out if the proxy is down.

...

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