On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, souvik.datta_at_wipro.com wrote:

> I am facing problem with CURL timeout. I am writing an application in which
> one thread is retrieving data in CURL's context and feeding the data to some
> other module. The issue that I am facing is that some times the server is
> not sending data and as a result CURL callback is not coming out from it's
> context. But I have set CURLOPT_LOWSPEED_TIME to 5 and
> CURLOPT_LOWSPEED_LIMIT to 5.

What libcurl version on what OS? What protocol? What exactly is libcurl
doing/waiting for at the moment you expect it to return due to the low speed?

> Also is there any way I can kill the CURL context ( which is waiting for
> data ) from another thread?

No.

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