curl-library
Re: Timeouts and using CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 21:23:16 +0100 (CET)
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 21:23:16 +0100 (CET)
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Andrew Fuller wrote:
> Just tried it on curl-7.11.0-20031127 and it worked fine - ie you can see
> where curl explicitly closes the connection upon timeout - see attached
> output.
>
> Thanks Daniel!
Ah, neat! Thanks for verifying this.
> Until this is released, I'll set CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT on a handle whose
> fetch times out. Does this affect only the next fetch on that handle, or
> should I subsequently clear CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT?
The option is "sticky" (all options are) so you need to explicitly clear it.
However, if you then try a URL from that first host again you might re-use
that connection again... You'll get a tricky decision to figure out if you
risk doing that or not.
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