On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, lostsandman wrote:

> well i think, the client connection is "going" away and curl doesn't finds
> out about it for long time.

Well, a silent connection is not an error in TCP. Use a timeout or set the
lowspeed options.

> So if SO_KEEPALIVE was used then the default value of 2 hours can be reduced
> so curl finds out about the lost connection.

Right, but reducing it to less than two hours can't be done by libcurl itself
so using SO_KEEPALIVE is not really changing much that isn't already possibly
to achieve using the existing options.

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