On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Seymen Ertas wrote:

> In summary during large upload sessions the control connection seems to be
> terminated where the data connection is still active and is unaware that the
> control connection is no longer around.

A common problem indeed.

> I am wondering whether CURL provides any options where a keep-alive is
> implemented for the control connection during large transfers ?

Nope, unfortunately it doesn't.

> What I mean by this is sending a couple of useless commands periodically
> just to keep the control connection alive.

There is a 'NOOP' command that would fit perfectly. But nobody has written any
code that makes libcurl do this. Feel free to start!

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