On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Julian Tonti-Filippini wrote:

> curl 7.14.0 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0) libcurl/7.14.0 OpenSSL/0.9.7b
> zlib/1.1.4

...

> curl --url http://www.google.com
>
> It just hangs and sits in the process list doing nothing.

Use --trace-ascii dumpfile to see what the last thing that happens is.

Use your strace equivalent (I believe it is called ktrace on Mac OS X) and
figure out what it does when it "hangs".

Compile with debug (-g) enabled and use your debugger to find out why it does
what you find out it does when it hangs.

Involve us (this list) in the process and I'm sure we can work out what's
going on and get things working for you.

Good luck!

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