On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, T. Bharath wrote:

> Another way would be to have a bool variable(handle specific) which can
> be set at any point in time using setopt and all the loops should check
> for this in the code. At any point in time the user can call this in a
> diffrent thread stopping the downladprocess.
> This would work on all platform

Yeps, and this method can already more or less be applied, as you can set a
progress meter callback that can abort the download. It could be triggered
this way.

It would make a one second delay (at most) to cancel a transfer in progress.

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