using curl 7.9.8

Background as to what I am trying to achieve
[ I am POSTing form data and getting a page back, however its huge, I only want to POST the data & know it sent ok.
I tried using range ( -r -99) to say get first few bytes back however although site is http/1.1 only returns full page contents - no good.]

Next I try to use the speed limit.

According to man page (curl -M)

"
To have curl abort the download if the speed is slower than 3000 bytes per
second for 1 minute, run:
curl -y 3000 -Y 60 www.far-away-site.com
"

I do -y 9999999 -Y 1 to make it abort in 1 second no matter what xfer speed, this has no effect i still get total page slowly.

However if i read the help page (curl --help)

"
-y/--speed-time Time needed to trig speed-limit abort. Defaults to 30
-Y/--speed-limit Stop transfer if below speed-limit for 'speed-time' secs
"
These swtiches are opposite way around to the man page ??

So i try
curl -y 1 -Y 9999999 www.far-away-site.com

and this also gets full page and no abort

Why are the switches back to front? , which is correct ?
Does it not work or am I missing somehting obvious? Any other ways to achieve my solution?
(cannot use -m as connection is slow etc and can timeout b4 form POSTs correctly)

Thankyou

Rich

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