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Re: FTP keep alive connection

From: Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 10:41:02 -0800

On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 12:20:40PM +0100, Michel Loiseleur wrote:
> Here's some news. As stated with some of you on this list, the "NOOP"
> approach is really dangerous and cannot be applied in all cases, with all
> servers.
> To the contrary, the SO_KEEPALIVE approach is working well. The patch is
> nonintrusive and do not force us to add some more flags or more options on
> compile time.
> It was validated on the whole set of my use cases. See the patch attached
> for a sample code. It's maybe not the good place to set it, since I cannot
> put the error message on the common log. But I do not know if it's better to
> get the logger in the function or to set this socket option elsewhere, where
> the logger is. So I'll leave it to one of the maintener.

You should be able to accomplish the same thing without touching libcurl
code at all using the CURLOPT_SOCKOPTFUNCTION callback. That makes it
100% nonintrusive.

>>> Dan

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Received on 2007-11-08