connection timeout is now supported

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Daniel Stenberg 2001-03-15 14:37:17 +00:00
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@ -9,10 +9,6 @@ TODO
Things to do in project cURL. Please tell me what you think, contribute and
send me patches that improve things!
To do for the 7.7 release:
* Add a special connection-timeout that only goes for the connection phase.
To do for the 7.8 release:
* Make SSL session ids get used if multiple HTTPS documents from the same

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@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
.\" nroff -man curl.1
.\" Written by Daniel Stenberg
.\"
.TH curl 1 "14 March 2001" "Curl 7.7" "Curl Manual"
.TH curl 1 "15 March 2001" "Curl 7.7" "Curl Manual"
.SH NAME
curl \- get a URL with FTP, TELNET, LDAP, GOPHER, DICT, FILE, HTTP or
HTTPS syntax.
@ -91,6 +91,14 @@ also be enforced by using an URL that ends with ";type=A". This option causes
data sent to stdout to be in text mode for win32 systems.
If this option is used twice, the second one will disable ASCII usage.
.IP "--connect-timeout <seconds>"
Maximum time in seconds that you allow the connection to the server to take.
This only limits the connection phase, once curl has connected this option is
of no more use. This option doesn't work in win32 systems. See also the
.I "--max-time"
option.
If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used.
.IP "-c/--continue"
.B Deprecated. Use '-C -' instead.
Continue/Resume a previous file transfer. This instructs curl to
@ -295,6 +303,9 @@ If this option is used twice, the second will again disable location following.
Maximum time in seconds that you allow the whole operation to take. This is
useful for preventing your batch jobs from hanging for hours due to slow
networks or links going down. This doesn't work fully in win32 systems.
See also the
.I "--connect-timeout"
option.
If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used.
.IP "-M/--manual"

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.B CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE
Pass a char * to the zero terminated path name to the Entropy Gathering Daemon
socket. It will be used to seed the random engine for SSL.
.TP
.B CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT
Pass a long. It should contain the maximum time in seconds that you allow the
connection to the server to take. This only limits the connection phase, once
it has connected, this option is of no more use. Set to zero to disable
connection timeout (it will then only timeout on the system's internal
timeouts). This option doesn't work in win32 systems. See also the
.I CURLOPT_TIMEOUT
option.
.PP
.SH RETURN VALUE
0 means the option was set properly, non-zero means an error as