On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Thorsten.Moeller_at_atosorigin.com wrote:

> i am trying to download a file from an https resource via curl, but all
> i receive are "Cannot connect to host" timeout-errors.

"Cannot connect to host" is not a timeout error...

> The Browsers use an ISA proxy to get to the internet. For the Port 80 it was
> not necessary to tell curl about it.

Are you telling curl to use that same proxy with the same auth credentials and
auth method?

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