Thanks Daniel,

Your solution worked very well.

Now, Just figuring out why curl returns Connection timeout error i.e. 28
instead of CURLE_COULDNT_CONNECT(7) after
CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETFUNCTION function return "CURL_SOCKET_BAD".

Thanks and Regards,
Balasaheb Salunke
cell : +91 8087699715 / +91 9766162204

On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 3:30 AM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Jun 2015, BALASAHEB SALUNKE wrote:
>
> However if I blocked the request and returns "CURL_SOCKET_BAD", it
>> results into Connection timeout error i.e. 28.
>>
>
> This seems like a bug. It should really return CURLE_COULDNT_CONNECT (7)
> or something like that. I'm looking into a fix for that.
>
> Is there any way handle this, so that we can return specific return code
>> from libcurl that shows request was blcoked.
>>
>
> No you cannot change what libcurl will return there. But since you pass in
> a custom pointer to your callback, you can for example pass in a variable
> that tell your parent function what the reason for the failure truly was.
>
> Something like this psuedo code approach:
>
>
> int socketfunc(..., void *userp)
> {
> int *value = (int *)userp;
>
> *value = I_THINK_THE_USER_IS_SILLY;
> }
>
> reason = 0;
> curl_easy_setopt(easy, CURLOPT_OPENSOCKETDATA, &reason);
>
> ret = curl_easy_perform();
>
> if (ret) {
> if(reason == I_THINK_THE_USER_IS_SILLY) {
> /* my callback thinks the user is silly */
> ...
> }
>
> }
>
> --
>
> / daniel.haxx.se
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