On Wed, 14 May 2008, Jeff Weber wrote:

>> "Never" or "so long that I gave up waiting"? Chances are, there is a long
>> timeout of some sort occurring. If it's due to the nameserver lookup, you
>> could reduce that by using c-ares for asynchronous lookups.
>>
> I've noticed 2 behaviors. Either the library starts running the progress
> callback at approximately 1Hz

Did you mention what libcurl version and platform you're using?

> or no callback is invoked at all. I wait for 3 minutes. I use raw dotted
> quad IP addresses, not DNS names.

Then you're seeing a bug. Can you repeat it? Can you check out what it is
doing during that time?

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