On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, John Smith wrote:

> It would be ideal if I could tell curl to quit if it can't move any bytes up
> or down stream for a specified period as opposed to a total transaction time
> limit. Is this possible?

It sounds like you want -y/--speed-time and -Y/--speed-limit...

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