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Re: Couldn't Connect Error - Address already in use

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:05:57 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Alfred Gebert wrote:

> libcurl can't create additional outgoing TCP/IP connections because it
> runs out of available port numbers for the IP address.

Really? libcurl's return code 7 is a connect failure, and by that time it
already got a socket to use. The _server_ however tries to create a new socket
at connect time and may fail if it runs out of them...

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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Received on 2010-07-12