On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Dennis Christopher wrote:

> When I turn on the verbose debugging options, the headers sent etc. in the
> good and bad case appear to be identical. The content length is identical
> and the content differs only in the 7 digit barcode number. In the good
> case, I receive a server response with appropriate headers and the data
> fields requested. In the bad case, no response at all appears in the
> debugging output.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Have you checked with a network analyzer if libcurl have the same idea of the
network traffic?

If so, I can't see how you can do anything else but to use a timeout and bail
out if the server decides to hang on you!

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