On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Sachin Gole wrote:

> I am using curl library for downloading xml data.

Then consider using the curl-library mailing list instead. This is the list
for users of the curl tool.

> curl_easy_setopt(curl,CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,30);
>
> while downloading xml file, i got 50 % download then server stops sending
> data in that case will i get timeout as its partial download and further
> server is not processing ?
>
> if download is in progress and timeout occurs then will curl internally
> update timeout ?

The timeout is a fixed time where the transfer will be stopped. No matter
what. If you want to make it depending on transfer speed or similar, then you
need to use other options.

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