On Thu, 22 Sep 2022, Matthew Bobowski via curl-library wrote:
I am curious as to why this change was made which breaks expected behavior.
The expected behavior from any libcurl function is what is documented - if it isn't documented, the behavior is not reliable.
The handling of negative arguments was incidental and by chance it worked like you described. There was no *deliberate* handling of negative values. As such, users could either take advantage of the undocumented behavior or they could be surprised and something would go wrong.
Now, I suspect you actually did not only want to ask *why* we changed that but rather if we can add *documented* support for infinite timeouts?
I think we could. -- / daniel.haxx.se | Commercial curl support up to 24x7 is available! | Private help, bug fixes, support, ports, new features | https://curl.se/support.html -- Unsubscribe: https://lists.haxx.se/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: https://curl.se/mail/etiquette.html
