On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Omar Uddin wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone out there has experienced difficulties with the
> max-time parameter ?
>
> I have set it to 60 on this credit card transaction procedure that uses an
> exec'ed curl.
>
> I pass to curl other options like
>
> /usr/local/bin/curl -sS -m 60 --connect-timeout 30 -d '&
>
> to the site
>
> but the max-time parameter does not return the process to it's parent
> process when this threshold is reached....

The usual questions:

 1. What operating system?
 2. What curl version?

And some innovative new ones:

 3. When this happens, what is the actual problem with the site, do you know
    that?
 4. Can you repeat this in any way on demand?

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