allan,

Thanks for your response.

I don't have any way as yet to get a tcp dump of contents.

what does ethereal run on? is it shareware?

I'm having trouble imagining how this could be the server not
responding, because of what I said in my first post: when the
same record is queried through the same php, with a web-
browser doing the request, the result is good.

Dennis
On Monday, September 19, 2005, at 01:38 PM, <man_at_tfhs.net> wrote:

>
>>> 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!
>>
>> Network Utility on the server machine (Mac OSX) (which I have access
>> to,
>> locally BTW) says that it has sent packets back.
>>
>> But back on the PC where the curl client resides I am getting nothing
>> back.
>>
>
> more than number of packets, can you look at contents? maybe get a
> tcpdump
> on both sides of the connection? using an app like ethereal can really
> help you analyse the issue.
>
> what is the network between the machines like? any content filters or
> routers or proxies that might do something silly like drop SACKs?
>
> allan
>
Received on 2005-09-20