On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 Gunn_Fergal_at_emc.com wrote:

> Basically, it seems unable to interrupt outside the libcurl code

Not only unable, it doesn't even attempt to!

> it knows that there had been a timeout and returns an error to state as
> much.

Yeps.

> It might now be up to me to write my own timeout code in the
> curl_write_hook() callback. Can you think of another way around this??

Nope. I'm sorry if this hasn't been clear, but libcurl only times out its own
operations. You master your own code!

If you have any suggestions on what to add to what docs to make this more
obvious in the future, please let me know!

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