Hi,

I have some C++ code which sends REST requests periodically. Here are some options that are set and then the curl_easy_perform call (a HEAD message is being sent):

    curl_easy_setopt(mhCurl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, chunk);
    curl_easy_setopt(mhCurl, CURLOPT_URL, f_szUrl.c_str());
    curl_easy_setopt(mhCurl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, f_lTimeoutSec);
    curl_easy_setopt(mhCurl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, NULL);
    curl_easy_setopt(mhCurl, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 1L);
    curl_easy_setopt(mhCurl, CURLOPT_POST, 0L);
    curl_easy_setopt(mhCurl, CURLOPT_UPLOAD, 0L);
    curl_easy_setopt(mhCurl, CURLOPT_HEADERDATA, (void *)&rsp);
    ret = curl_easy_perform(mhCurl);

This is in executable running in Linux. At the Linux command line, if I do an ifdown on the network interface upon which the message is sent, then curl_easy_perform blocks and does not return.

The CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT value is 3 seconds, but that doesn't appear to be having an effect.

How do I get curl_easy_perform to return if the network interface is down? Is there an option to do this?

I noticed that there is a curl_multi_perform that doesn't block, but I'm hoping to not go that route, because that would require a different handle type that is used in multiple places in the code.

Should the interface somehow be checked before calling curl_easy_perform?

Thanks in advance for any thoughts!

Jeremy

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