Daniel,

I tried some other URL's of much larger pages I could test easily, they did time out...
but seems the issue is rather with the interpretation of a 1 second timeout(below) not being 1 second.
Maybe due to the sample time lengths the speed is calculated on being longer than a second?

$ curl -o /dev/null -y 1 -Y 99999999999 http://msdn.microsoft.com/sitemap/default.asp
  % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Curr.
                                 Dload Upload Total Current Left Speed
 70 31046 70 22030 0 0 7042 0 0:00:04 0:00:03 0:00:01 8843
curl: (28) Operation too slow. Less than 2147483647 bytes/sec transfered the last 1 seconds

So I concede it does work but not quite as I expected !
Is there a possibility to make the timeout start at maybe 1/10 of a second?

Thanks very much for such a quick response,

Rich

On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, RiCH wrote:

> According to man page (curl -M)

curl -M actually shows both the man page and the docs/MANUAL combined.

> 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"

That's a mixup, yes. It should be -Y 3000 -y 60, and I've corrected this now.

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

Really? I tried it too just now:

$ curl ftp.sunet.se/ls-lR -o /dev/null -y 2 -Y 1000000
[progress meter display cut out]
curl: (28) Operation too slow. Less than 1000000 bytes/sec transfered the
last 2 seconds

> Why are the switches back to front? , which is correct ?

As shown above.

> Does it not work or am I missing somehting obvious?

Works For Me (tm). Weirdly enough...

> Any other ways to achieve my solution? (cannot use -m as connection is slow
> etc and can timeout b4 form POSTs correctly)

I would be perfect if you could come up with a reproducable way to repeat
this problem, so that others too can see it happen as then it'll be a piece
of cake to debug and fix once and for all and it'll be much rejoicing.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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