On Wed, 8 Feb 2012, ajil koshy wrote:

> I would like to know on the client side, what is the right way to identify
> that the remote peer has disconnected gracefully i.e. closed the TCP
> connection?

libcurl informs when the request/transfer is complete, it doesn't tell you
when the TCP connection is closed.

> I would expect that the number of running easy handles to hit zero if peer
> disconnects but this doesn't happen.

It should, yes. If it doesn't, can you elaborate with more details?

The absolutely certain way to detect the completion of a transfer is however
to run curl_multi_info_read().

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