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Re: Interrupting Downloads

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 08:11:41 +0100 (MET)

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Andi Jahja wrote:

> What am I supposed to do to interrupt, thus cancelling downloads which are
> currently running ? Eg. because of slow connection, user decided to stop
> downloads.

Please take libcurl programming questions on the curl-library list.

But, you basicly have two options: return an error from the write callback or
return an error from the progress callback.

There is no current way to abort a transfer "immediately". If you can think
of a good (portable) way to do this, then please tell us.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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Received on 2002-12-09