On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, anoopchandran.othayoth_at_wipro.com wrote:

> This problem is related to timeout of libcurl.

Then I'd suggest you use the curl-library list instead!

> The option which I thought is about CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, But this works if the
> download operation takes longer duration than the time specified in
> curl_easy_opt() with CURL_TIMEOUT as parameter then will abort the operation
> right.

Yes

> Is there any option to abort the operation when the remote machine goes
> down?

Normally such operations are detected and the transfer is dropped. But
otherwise you can use CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME/CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT to
arrange for that.

> operating system: Linux 3 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
>
> version of curl: 4.1.1

We have never released such a version...

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