On Thu, 31 May 2007, Jonathan Arnold wrote:

> We have a routine that gets called every second, goes out to the web,
> and downloads a tiny (about 50 characters) file.

What libcurl version? Does it download this from the same server every second?

> It runs okay for some random time, say 30 minutes, but then returns back a
> "Couldn't connect to host" error.

That means that the connect() call failed...

> Should I tweak some timeout?

Possibly, yes. You should probably check what happens on the wire when this
failure occurs to pinpoint exactly what to do.

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