On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Christoph Rupp wrote:

> i don't really want to touch the system-wide settings... is it possible to
> implement timeouts with sigalarm or a timer or something similar?

Perhaps you want CURLOPT_TIMEOUT:

   http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html#CURLOPTTIMEOUT

... or CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT and friend:

   http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html#CURLOPTLOWSPEEDLIMIT
   http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html#CURLOPTLOWSPEEDTIME

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