[gdal-dev] http driver timeout

[Joaquim Luis]

> You could modify the source code to add a mechanism - for instance change
> the following code in gdal/port/cpl_http.cpp to include a default timeout
> of your selection:
>
>     /* Set timeout.*/
>     const char *pszTimeout = CSLFetchNameValue( papszOptions, 
> "TIMEOUT" );
>     if( pszTimeout != NULL )
>         curl_easy_setopt(http_handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,
>                          atoi(pszTimeout) );
>
> There may also be an environment variable recognised by libcurl but I
> haven't dug into that in details.  See curl.haxx.se I think.

Frank, thanks

I did had a look on libcurl doc. From the info here
http://curl.netmirror.org/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html#CURLOPTTIMEOUT
maybe the right parameter to pass is CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT

Joaquim