Cris D. Putnam
 CURLOPT_TIMEOUT solved the issue. I set it for a 5 second timeout, and
made it adjustable via the INI file.

Thanks.
Cris

                                                                           
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Have you looked at the various timeout options??

   CURLOPT_TIMEOUT

   CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT

Either of those should break you out of a hung connection.

Ralph Mitchell

On 1/31/06, Cris Putnam <cdputnam_at_us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>
> I am using the curl easy interface to automate authentication through
> firewalls. My application was designed to be single threaded and now I am
> running into a problem, it hangs if the network goes down during login.
>
> On testing, for example if a wireless user starts the login procedure
for
> 10 firewalls and it makes through 5 of them and then moves to an area
where
> the network is lost my app hangs.... on 6th login attempt and just stays
> hung....
>
> I suppose the curl_easy_perform(curl)call is a blocking call, right?
>
>
> Is there a specific curl error that gets thrown for no network
connection?
> Or something I can detect to break out of the login sequence?
>
>
>
> Cris D. Putnam
>