On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Christian Schmitz wrote:

> It looks like for a FTP address the time needed for the login and changing
> path and other setup stuff takes a few seconds where my application is
> blocked.
>
> Do you know how to get some callback for updating the GUI while connecting?
>
> This is before the progress events start so I thought about modifying the
> library to call some new callback for progress while connecting.

The progress callback should be called, from the start. The only time it can't
be called is during name resolving if your libcurl is built to use the regular
synchronous resolver. So if you really see an extended period of no calls (and
it isn't resolving the name then), it is a bug.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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