Hi Dan,

thanks for your hint. Your conclusion seems to be absolutely right. Setting
a timeout using "--max-time" works.

After achieving the timeout my script returns and continues.** That helps.

Thank you very much
Ronald

2011/10/21 Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>

>
> curl won't send the GET request until it connects to the remote server. So,
> in this case it DID connect (to the allegedly unavailable port) and sent
> the
> request. At that point it will wait for the response, and since HTTP
> doesn't
> specify any timeouts, it will wait forever. If whatever it was that
> answered
> on port 11111 acts like port 9 (the discard port), then curl will never
> exit,
> by design.
>
> You will want to add a timeout or speed limit option to have curl detect
> this
> condition and eventually abort.
>

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