On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Michael Wood wrote:

>> then there's not a lot your app or libcurl can do. You'd need to make some
>> kind of work around in your app to make sure the transfers are always
>> shorter than the timeout period.
>
> What about using CURLOPT_SOCKOPTFUNCTION to set SO_KEEPALIVE on the
> connection? Or is this already done by default?

Ah, stupid me. That's of course one of the first things to do, indeed.

Even though the exact timeout that that'll provide will differ between
platforms and some (at least oldish) systems will have that inconveniently
long by default.

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  / daniel.haxx.se