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Re: Weird behaviour for Images

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 00:57:19 +0200 (CEST)

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Nishant Mittal wrote:

> i am running Curl on Red Hat Linux 9.0 and the version of curl is ..
> libcurl 7.9.8 (OpenSSL 0.9.7a) (ipv6 enabled)

That version is nearly a hundred years old. Well almost. ;-)

> I am using libcurl in my C application for downloading pages and images from
> the internet. I noticed that it downloads html pages very very fast but when
> it comes to images.. it always times out and then downloads the image.

It makes no sense. libcurl does the EXACT same operation whatever content it
downloads. If there is a speed difference, libcurl is not the one to blame for
it really.

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Received on 2004-10-25