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Updated: Nov 3, 2009 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html)
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Updated: Nov 7, 2009 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html)
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4.15 FTPS doesn't work
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4.16 My HTTP POST or PUT requests are slow!
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4.17 Non-functional connect timeouts on Windows
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4.18 file:// URLs containing drive letters (Windows, NetWare)
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5. libcurl Issues
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5.1 Is libcurl thread-safe?
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anything else. This will make (lib)curl to consider the connection connected
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and thus the connect timeout won't trigger.
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4.18 file:// URLs containing drive letters (Windows, NetWare)
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When using cURL to try to download a local file, one might use a URL
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in this format:
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file://D:/blah.txt
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You'll find that even if D:\blah.txt does exist, cURL returns a 'file
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not found' error.
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According to RFC 1738 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1738.html),
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file:// URLs must contain a host component, but it is ignored by
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most implementations. In the above example, 'D:' is treated as the
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host component, and is taken away. Thus, cURL tries to open '/blah.txt'.
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If your system is installed to drive C:, that will resolve to 'C:\blah.txt',
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and if that doesn't exist you will get the not found error.
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To fix this problem, use file:// URLs with *three* leading slashes:
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file:///D:/blah.txt
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Alternatively, if it makes more sense, specify 'localhost' as the host
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component:
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file://localhost/D:/blah.txt
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In either case, cURL should now be looking for the correct file.
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5. libcurl Issues
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