Thomas Reinke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Again, I just never saw the point. > > FWIW, as I mentioned to Hrvoje earlier off-line, it can be a reliability > issue. Without it, wget can hang and require some form of intervention > to terminate properly,
I guess I was just lucky never to encounter Wget "hanging" on connect. I did see Wget hang on read, and that's why I originally implemented the read timeout.
