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Re: keeping connection on multi_remove_handle for FTP

From: Robert Iakobashvili <coroberti_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 08:05:30 +0200

Hi Armel and Daniel,

On 12/17/06, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Armel Asselin wrote:
>
> > - we could have a CURLOPT_CANCEL which could be set to 1 while a CURL
> easy
> > handle is running, in this case, the current request would get ended as
> fast
> > as possible. we could have several code here such as: 'cancel nicely'
> (what
> > we are trying to do), 'cancel hardly' (would just end marking connection
> > invalid, doing nothing intelligent but ultra-fast).
>

Before even considering adding this option and the various ways of dealing
> with them, I think we should consider if there's any interest from users
> in
> it. Remember that you are the first person who brought this issue up, so
> this
> is not a big issue to people.

curl-loader has added a very premature support for ftp urls to be used for
traffic
generation, loading, testing, etc (still, not well tested with several
pending issues).
Indeed, the options of "cancel hardly" and 'cancel nicely' could be helpful
in storming and smooth modes, when dealing with multi-interface and FTP.

Thank you.

-- 
Sincerely,
Robert Iakobashvili,
coroberti %x40 gmail %x2e com
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Received on 2006-12-17