On Mon, 9 Oct 2017, folkert wrote:

> I use curl to retrieve a video-stream of semi-infinite length.
> Now sometimes if the camera crashes, the video stream stops.
> I would like curl to timeout then.
> Is this possible?

I think this is answered in the FAQ here:

   https://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html#I_want_a_different_time_out

> From the manual I understood that CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS is for the whole
> session. I need a t/o for a single read.

libcurl doesn't expose the concept of individual reads so I don't understand
how that would work. It even uses non-blocking sockets internally so it
actually never really times out on a per-read level.

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
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