Hi all,

I'm using libcURL 7.10.3 with Microsoft Visual C++ under windows. With
the Easy interface, everything is just fine, but when I try to connect to
a port that doesn't have a server, I never get an error message. For
example, I don't have a web server on my machine, so an attempt to connect
to http://127.0.0.1/foo should fail but doesn't. I've tracked down the
problem, it goes like this:

The third call to curl_multi_perform() is the first time it's in
CURLM_STATE_WAITCONNECT, and it calls Curl_is_connected(), which calls
waitconnect(). The comments for waitconnect() say:

* Return 0 on fine connect, -1 on error and 1 on timeout.

But in reality, if select() leaves the file descriptor in the list of
error descriptors, waitconnect() returns 2. This is happening to me on
Windows/MSVC when there's nothing to connect to. Curl_is_connected()
ignores this return value (along with -1 and 1) and seems to assume its
still connecting.

So, if I understand correctly, after the "if (0 == rc)" there should be an
"else if (rc != 1) return CURLE_COULDNT_CONNECT;" But, I'm not really a
network programmer so I leave the fix to you.

- Martin

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Received on 2003-02-09