On Fri, 21 May 2004, Alex Bolgarov wrote:

> The question I was asking was how can I control (if I can at all) the
> timeout when the curl waits for something to be received from the server. I
> set all possible timeouts (CURLOPT_TIMEOUT and CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT) to 60
> sec, and was expected the curl to wait for 60 sec. Instead, it waited only
> for 15 sec.

The timeout values are the maximum time curl will spend. If it figures out
something in a shorter time, it'll take shorter time. You cannot make it take
longer time than it needs to.

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