Does the connection go through a proxy?
I had a problem when i was connecting through a proxy.It used to hang till the connection timedout.I found a solution --to disconnect once i read the number of bytes specified in the content-length header.

Original Message:
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From: Daniel Stenberg daniel_at_haxx.se
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 08:28:35 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Re: Does curl have problems when no content-length is specified (asp
 page on IIS4)

On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Jim Tong wrote:

> Does curl hang when trying to fetch an asp page from an IIS 4.0 server
> running on NT 4.0?

No, it shouldn't.

> I think this might be due to it not sending content-length in the header.

I don't. Curl doesn't care about content-length headers.

> Has any seen this or have a solution for this?

I've never seen this happen. I don't think this is because it is a IIS4
server, I think there's something else that causes this failure.

-- 
  Daniel Stenberg -- curl project maintainer -- http://curl.haxx.se/
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