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Why would curl ignore CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS (but honor CURLOPT_TIMEOUT)?

I am using curl to call a web service API. The service can unresponsive so I want to set a timeout. When I use CURLOPT_TIMEOUT things work as expected. But when I use CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS (note the 'MS' for milliseconds) the timeout doesn't appear to kick in at all. php.net tells me that the latter was available since PHP version 5.2.3, and I am using 5.2.6.

Any ideas why this is happening?

Thanks.

Code fragment:

$c = curl_init();
curl_setopt( $c, CURLOPT_URL, $call );
curl_setopt( $c, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers); 
curl_setopt( $c, CURLOPT_HEADER, false );
curl_setopt( $c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
curl_setopt( $c, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS, 100 ); 
curl_setopt( $c, CURLOPT_CONNECTIONTIMEOUT_MS, 100 ); 
$result = curl_exec($c);
curl_close($c);
Solution

  • To close this question:

    The version of curl I am using (7.15.5) doesn't support CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS. According to Greg I need at least 7.16.2.