Posted by rahul sinha on 04/27/07 07:00

On Apr 26, 2:55 pm, news <a...@inetia.pl> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm having a problem with the cURL library.
> It doesn't seem to obey the 'timeout' parameters.
Can you show me the code ..

>
> I set the CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT to, say, 1 second,
> and CURLOPT_TIMEOUT to whatever value.
>
> Then I'm fetching (via a GET request) some page
> from a _nonexistent_ domain - and I have to wait around 4 seconds
> for the timeout error to show up. (name lookup error)
>
> So - what's the use of CONNECTTIMEOUT and TIMEOUT?
> Why I have to wait 4 seconds, while I set the connect timeout
> to 1 second?
>
> TIA, Regards
> -news

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