On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Torsten Foertsch wrote:

> sporadically I notice curl entering an infinite loop eating up all processor
> time. I think, it is related to SSL (I haven't seen it on plain connections).

...

> curl 7.9.8 (i686-pc-linux) libcurl 7.9.8 (OpenSSL 0.9.6g) (ipv6 enabled)
>
> Is that a known issue?

Yes

> What is the reason

A bug!

> how can it be avoided?

Upgrade your curl!

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