On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Matt Marulla wrote:

> in my install (PHP 5.3.8, lib-curl 7.19.7), I am still getting immediate
> time-outs when setting TIMEOUT-MS to less than 1000, even when using the IP
> address in the URL, thus, avoiding name resolution.

The name resolve is not the only thing that can take a little time. But
there's of course also the chance you might experiencing a bug.

You're however using a libcurl version that is 17 releases old so we'd like
you to run a test with a modern version to see if this problem still remains
or not!

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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