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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