I just noticed from verbose, the print "timeout on name lookup is not
supported"
I am not using ares library and i am using a ip address in the URL.

Is there a way to timeout with these?

Thanks
Ram
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Ram <ramkumar.h_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> When I set the CURLOPT_NOBODY to 1 to read only the header information,
> I see that curl does not timeout if the server is not reachable.
> I disconnected the ethernet cable from the server and tried to read the
> header with curl_easy_perform, but it would just keep waiting for the server
> to timeout.
>
> I tried setting connection timeout, timeout, low speed limits but it
> doesn't work with NOBODY option set to true.
> I am able to timeout properly if I disconnect the cable after reading the
> header and while reading the body (without nobody and using GET)
>
> Is this a bug in curl or am i missing something? Please help. I am using
> libcurl version 7.19.5.
>
> -------------------
> The following are the options I set
>
> curl_easy_setopt(cHandle, CURLOPT_URL, urlname);
> curl_easy_setopt(cHandle, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "curl/7.19.5 (i386-pc-win32)
> libcurl/7.19.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8k zlib/1.2.3");
> curl_easy_setopt(cHandle, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
> curl_easy_setopt(cHandle, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 20);
>
> curl_easy_setopt(cHandle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
> curl_easy_setopt(cHandle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 2);
> curl_easy_setopt(cHandle, CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, 1);
> curl_easy_setopt(cHandle, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 1);
>
> curl_easy_perform(cHandle);
> --------------------
>
>
> Thanks
> Ram
>
Received on 2009-09-02