Hi,

I am using libcurl in a project. I have looked last few days into the
different time-outs that curl supports and I have some questions about this.

I use curl for two things:

- normal http requests

- retrieving large files via ftp

I set the CURLOPT_TIMEOUT value to 10 minutes. This works very nicely for
normal http requests etc. but when I receive a file via ftp it also times
out after 10 minutes. This is not what I want. Then I changed timeout for
ftp to 2 hours. Now that's working fine but when no data is received because
of a server error the timeout takes 2 hours also.

Is there a way in libcurl to have it timeout after a short time when no
longer receiving data while still being able to receive large files that can
take 2 hours?

Thanks,

Richard

 
Received on 2006-09-08