note 102396 added to function.curl-exec

I was having a problem, for almost a week, of curl_exec() freezing/hanging when I made a request with it to a page that spends over an hour converting a large video file, and only afterwards sends control-data back to the calling script.

I'm using windows 7, WampServer-2.1d-64.exe, PHP 5.3.4, libcurl-7.21.3.

Here's the final solution;

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel-of-haxx.se> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Tolas Anon wrote:
>
>>> It is also very easy for an application to enable the options as I've
>>> shown.
>>
>> Just not for the platforms i use, apparently.. :(
>
> Why not? A quick search for "tcp keepalive windows" shows this:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms819735.aspx

This fixed my problem in the simple test AND in my application!
No need to send keep-alive bytes on the text/html level either.

I just added the "KeepAliveTime" setting with windows 7 regedit.exe in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/services/Tcpip, as a
REG_DWORD value, set it to decimal 25000 (so 25 seconds), rebooted,
and it all works as i want it now..

Note that windows registry entries key names are case-sensitive, wrong
casing and they'll be deleted on restart.

Lots of thanks, Daniel. I would've never solved this on my own..

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