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Re: libcurl ignore timeout on sftp disconnect

From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 23:37:21 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 20 May 2020, Estanislau Augé-Pujadas via curl-library wrote:

> I have been using curl to upload files with sftp, and I have encountered an
> unexpected behaviour related to timeouts and disconnects. When setting
> CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS to some value, and the network disconnects during a file
> upload, libcurl does not timeout the operation.
>
> I found a commit on Github that indicates that this behaviour is actually
> intentional to address a problem that could leak to memory leaks for libssh2
> https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/f31760e63b4e9ef1eb25f8f211390f8239388515

Yeah, when I'm looking at it now it seems like the wrong fix (that I made and
pushed). If libssh2 does indeed leak that memory, the fix should be done in
libssh2. We should not just ignore a timeout request from a user.

If you revert that change, does the timeout work properly? Does libssh2
(still) leak memory if you do? 

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