On Mon, 22 Aug 2011, Robert Navarro wrote:

> when the system receiving messages at that URL is down or not responding, I
> get an exception instead of a timeout return.

That sounds unlikely. libcurl is a C library and it can't generate exceptions.

> try
> {
> res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
> }
> catch (System::Exception* e) <--- catching this because I don't know
> what else to catch, prevents service from stopping

I have no idea how you'd get an exception from that function call!

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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