On Fri, 8 May 2009, Marko Tapio Manninen wrote:

> curl 7.15.5 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8c zlib/1.2.3

...

> curl --proxy-user user:pass --proxy ip:port --url myurl
>
> Same connection string works from MacOSX. I have tested with and without user
> credentials, no working. Curl without proxy works. I get response variating:
>
> curl: (7) connect() timed out!
> curl: (28) connect() timed out!

I've not seen this happen and I cannot explain it. You are of course using a
very old version so you won't make me spend a lot of time researching it
either...

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  / daniel.haxx.se