We have a routine that gets called every second, goes out to the web,
and downloads a tiny (about 50 characters) file. It runs okay for
some random time, say 30 minutes, but then returns back a "Couldn't
connect to host" error. If I stop it in the debug, and move back the
current statement and just retry the Curl_PerformHttp call, it
works just fine. This is on Windows (XP in my case). The timer code
is pretty straightforward:

     std::string new_timestamp;
     curl_easy_setopt(curl_, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, (void *)&new_timestamp);
     curl_easy_setopt( curl_, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, WriteStringCallback );

     std::string urlstr = (pixurl+"igpix.inc");
     curl_easy_setopt(curl_, CURLOPT_URL, urlstr.c_str() );

     if ( PerformHttp() )

Should I tweak some timeout?

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Jonathan Arnold           Software Engineer
inSORS Integrated Communications, Inc
jarnold_at_insors.com Office/fax: 781.391.2818