On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Karthik Ramakrishnan wrote:

> I have a question on how curl handles slow SSL handshakes. Does CURL v7
> handle timeout on SSL handshakes ?

Yes. And to make things clear: no one sane is using anything but curl 7.

> Will setting CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT and CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME along with
> CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT help when CURL tries to establish a secure
> connection with a HTTPS server.

CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT will, the others won't. The two LOW_SPEED options are
for the actual data transfer phase, not for the connect phase.

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