On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Richard Bramante wrote:

> The real problem is the inability to implement a working verifyconnect() on
> Windows. If we had a working verifyconnect(), the select() issue is moot.
> I've tried several different approaches here, none of which have been
> successful. I suppose others have already gone through this exercise and
> failed, hence the #ifdef and just punting and returning TRUE.

There are two reasons we removed that code for Windows:

1. The win docs doesn't seem to mention the need for that verification.

2. It is a major performance hog when libcurl is used multi-threaded. There is
   something very strange in there, but it sucks almost all CPU when you use
   libcurl in 50 threads or so. (On windows that is).

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