On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, StephenB wrote:

> I'm having issues with a remote server which automatically responds with
> results on connection, or when aditional information is sent. It's
> reminiscent of a telnet/mail server, but for EPP requests.

EPP, as in Extensible Provisioning Protocol, is just an XML thing on top of
HTTP. There's nothing like "a telnet/mail server" there.

> The issue is that the response can be caught using output buffering or
> writefunctions, but the only way to stop curl_exec from hanging is to set a
> timeout value.

Why would it "hang" in the first place? You send data, you retrieve data. When
does that hang in a normal situation?

> Not very neatm and sort of defeats the purpose of a fast curl library!

libcurl itself has numerous of ways to offer to avoid that to happen.

> Is there any way of setting curl to exit properly or at least tell curl_exec
> that once it's caught the response to exit immediately. Effectively this is
> a eof issue?

libcurl itself does "exit" once it has read the response.

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