Re: Problems with curl timeout setting

Hello 127546,

Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 3:20:39 AM, you wrote:

> Hello Daniel,

> Monday, January 24, 2011, 7:52:51 PM, you wrote:

>> On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, [email protected] wrote:

>>> timeout is set at 2000ms, php returns the following
>>>
>>> $inf['total_time']=1.97
>>> $inf['connect_time']=0.04
>>> $inf['namelookup_time']=0.00
>>>
>>> Operation timed out after 2974 milliseconds with 0 out of -1 bytes received|
>>>
>>> which is close to 3s, why is that?

>> You've reached the end of my road here. If you can repeat that in a C program 
>> using libcurl, or the curl command line tool, then I'd be interested in 
>> looking into it. I'm not a PHP guy and I don't want to debug libcurl through 
>> it.

>> It is also relevant what resolver you're using, as if you use the stock *nix
>> resolver, it has a full-second resolution in the time-outs.


> By  resolver  do you mean dns? I believe I do not use any resolver because we connect only using IP?

> Also  we think that we found something relevant. We think that the servers we connect to which cause
> these  timeout problems are not the real well known http servers like apache or nginx. We are pretty
> sure  that  the  server  is  some self written perl code. Is this possible that this server does not
> return  some important headers which causes this timeout problems? For example, we connect to server
> on  port  80  and  it  does  not return anything, (no content whatsoever for 5 seconds, including no
> headers), can this affect timeouts working?? We think it can, we will try to test it



also regarding my previous post, I came to this conclusion after reading this

http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2010-09/0168.html

my error message iis also identical with -1

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