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Re: curl_easy_perform occasionally responds even though the PC is disconnected from the network

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:31:15 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, Alan Wolfe wrote:

> To expand on that, i'm thinking if you are making a request with the same
> URL after disconnecting as you made before disconnecting, the response could
> be in the cache and so you are getting the same results back.

No, they can't.

libcurl has no HTML/data cache support so if it gets contents, it gets it over
the network.

For a more detailed analysis exactly what's going on in Johnny's case, we need
detailed info of what actually happens that "once in every 80 requests".

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