On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Bill Hoffman wrote:

> Now, this works 99.9% of the time. However, once in a while curl just hangs
> forever and the process does not stop. Any ideas on what would cause that?
> If I add a global timeout it will stop it. However, since I do not know how
> long it should take to send a file to the server, I am hesitant to pick a
> number. Any ideas on how to debug would be helpful?

I would start with doing strace or gdb -p to figure out exactly what libcurl
does at the moment when it seems to hang.

> Is there some sort of timeout based on response from the server?

CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT and CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME perhaps?

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