On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, InHouse Ticketing - Urbaitel, Marc wrote:

> I need help with speeding up my curl connection. It takes 5 seconds
> everytime it connects to one of our electronic merchants.

That sounds like you have a problem with your network. Unless you transfer a
lot of data in that POST, 5 seconds seems excessively long.

> Does anyone know of a command that will stop the connection once the
> response is sent?

Once the response is received, the control is returned back to the PHP
program. You don't need any particular command for that.

> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE); // this line makes it work
> under https

Also notice that this line makes the HTTPS usage insecure.

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