curl-library
RE: CURL loops infinitely when cable is pulled out.
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 23:36:54 +0200 (CEST)
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 23:36:54 +0200 (CEST)
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Sonia Subramanian wrote:
> I guess my question is "Is a select value of 0 possible under normal
> operation or would that always indicate a bad socket. Would it be safe
> to treat select_res = 0 as a socket error and break out of the loop?"
(please trim your quotes)
select() is *very* likely to return 0 under normal operations. Just get a file
from a slow/loaded site and you'll see.
CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME and CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT might be what you're
looking for...
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