On Sat, 4 Dec 2010, Matt Horrocks wrote:

> I'm using curl 7.19.7 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8k
> zlib/1.2.3.3 libidn/1.15
>
> Approximately 1 in 50 transfers will result in an error 18:
> CURLE_PARTIAL_FILE failure. (This is OK, as I can log the failure and url
> and try it again later).
>
> The problem is with a timeout... when this error 18 occurs, the CURL
> transfer hangs for 3 minutes before failing.
>
> Is there a way to shorten this timeout?

What timeout is this? What protocol are you using here?

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