On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 19:51, Tolas Anon <[email protected]> wrote: > curl_exec() to localhost : works like a charm, for a 1hr request. > > curl_exec() to internet domain name of localhost (port forwarding from > adsl modem to localhost enabled) : still running, does appear as > frozen as in the original request for help.
That sounds like you're behind a NAT'ed firewall. Quiet connections will often go dead (by the firewall) in an hour or less (I've seen 30 minutes on some). My ssh tunnel connections always use a 'ping -i localhost 600' on the tunnel-setup ssh to keep the connections up. You may instead try to set the TCP option SO_KEEPALIVE (see 'man socket') to see if it helps. -Tor ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
