On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Jared Ingersoll wrote:

> I was wondering if there is any way to speed up curl over ssl? I'm currently
> using it to do a post over https, and it's taking around 30 seconds to get a
> result back. An in-house Java application that we have takes 3-5 seconds to
> return a result, so I can only assume that the delay is something that is
> unique to either curl, or openssl.

I can only agree with you, but there is nothing in curl that should make it
behave like this. curl should at least be equally fast up to a lot faster than
any java app for SSL traffic.

To figure out what's happening, I'd suggest you:

1. use curl --trace as help to detect what the delay is
2. snoop network traffic to figure out clues
3. strace curl to see if there's a particular system call that seems to take
   a long time.

30 seconds to get a result back sounds awfully bad and I've never personally
seen curl behave that bad.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl: been grokking URLs since 1998
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