On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Karl wrote:

> When using threads and libcurl, if one thread is running curl_easy_perform
> and for whatever reason that takes some time (say host not responding), can
> another thread terminate that attempt

No. But a thread can signal the other thread and then you can make your
callback(s) return to abort the transfer. It will at least make the transfer
stop as soon as possible.

> , or do we have to wait for the perform to fail.

Return the proper code from your callback and it'll stop.

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