On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 farr_at_metservice.com wrote:

> I seem to be having a very strange problem with curl_multi_perform where it
> blocks for a very very long time (greater than 30 seconds) when the server
> provides a strange response. Other programs, such as ncftp, crash when
> asked to do the same set of downloads, so this is probably not a
> particularly common problem.
>
> Has anyone experienced using libcurl in a network where the responses
> received from the server are messed up?

Do you have any network tracesor similar of more details on this "server
messing up" ?

libcurl still reads FTP responses in a blocking manner, even when using the
multi interface, which can be the explanation to this.

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