Something makes curl hang for 5 minutes after connection refused

Brian Inglis Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca
Sat Dec 1 03:57:00 GMT 2018


On 2018-11-30 12:49, Lee wrote:
> On 11/30/18, Basin Ilya  wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> Recently I noticed that `curl` does not fail immediately after connection
>> refused, but waits for 5 minutes.
>>
>> This only happens on my machine and only with the `Cygwin` version of
>> `curl`. The mingw version is unaffected.
>> I tried downgrading curl, but it didn't help. I thought there's a rogue
>> setting in `/etc` or in home or maybe some environment variable, but I
>> couldn't find it.
>>
>>     basin@BASIN /cygdrive/c/Users/basin
>>     $ >/dev/null /usr/bin/curl -v http://127.0.0.1:2/
>>     * STATE: INIT => CONNECT handle 0x80048658; line 1404 (connection
>> #-5000)
>>     * Added connection 0. The cache now contains 1 members
>>     *   Trying 127.0.0.1...
>>     * TCP_NODELAY set
>>     * STATE: CONNECT => WAITCONNECT handle 0x80048658; line 1456 (connection
>> #0)
>     <.. snip ..>
>>     curl: (28) Connection timed out after 300145 milliseconds
>>
>>     basin@BASIN /cygdrive/c/Users/basin
>>     $ /usr/bin/curl --version
>>     curl 7.59.0 (i686-pc-cygwin) libcurl/7.59.0 OpenSSL/1.0.2p zlib/1.2.11
>> libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.18.0 (+libidn2/2.0.2) libssh2/1.7.0 nghttp2/1.31.0
> 
>> Can someone try to reproduce it?
> 
> I get the same behavior:
> $ /usr/bin/curl -v http://127.0.0.1:2/
> * STATE: INIT => CONNECT handle 0x600057ad0; line 1404 (connection #-5000)
> * Added connection 0. The cache now contains 1 members
> *   Trying 127.0.0.1...
> * TCP_NODELAY set
> * STATE: CONNECT => WAITCONNECT handle 0x600057ad0; line 1456 (connection #0)
> * Connection timed out after 300324 milliseconds
> * multi_done
> * stopped the pause stream!
> * Closing connection 0
> * The cache now contains 0 members
> curl: (28) Connection timed out after 300324 milliseconds
> 
> $ /usr/bin/curl --version
> curl 7.59.0 (x86_64-unknown-cygwin) libcurl/7.59.0 OpenSSL/1.0.2p
> zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.18.0 (+libidn2/2.0.2) libssh2/1.7.0
> nghttp2/1.31.0
> 
> 
> I also get an almost immediate 'failed to connect' notice on windows:
> C:\>C:\UTIL\curl\curl.exe -v http://127.0.0.1:2/
> *   Trying 127.0.0.1...
> * TCP_NODELAY set
> * connect to 127.0.0.1 port 2 failed: Connection refused
> * Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1 port 2: Connection refused
> * Closing connection 0
> curl: (7) Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1 port 2: Connection refused
> 
> with either version of curl:
> C:\>where curl
> C:\UTIL\curl\curl.exe
> C:\Windows\System32\curl.exe

Ditto all the way!

Could this be caused by network speed improvements made to Cygwin a while back?
Or were those patches never sent/received/applied from Daniel Havey (MS Windows
Program Manager for Transports and IP)?

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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