On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, lostsandman wrote:

> While looking into this problem i came cross the socket option SO_KEEPALIVE.
> i was told to change the default time of 2 hours to something less.

I don't see how that is related to your problem.

> But searched the curl source code and curl sockets don't seem to set this
> option.

Nope. And even if we did, what good what it do you?

> can i ask why is the reason for not setting this option?

The reason is simply that no one ever needed it or added it.

-- 
  Commercial curl and libcurl Technical Support: http://haxx.se/curl.html