RCurl - curlPerform - Time out?!?

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Hi Florian

 Yes, there are several options for a curl operation that control the timeout.
The timeout option is the top-level general one.  There is also timeout.ms.
You can also control the timeout length for different parts of the operation/request
such as via the connecttimeout for just establishing the connection.
See the Connection Options in the libcurl help page for curl_easy_setopt.

  Best,
   D.

Hi,

I am working with the RCurl package and I am using the curlPerform 
function for an soap-query.
The problem is that the code is usually working well, but sometimes the 
connection gets lost.

So I wrote a while-loop to repeat the query if anything might happened 
so that the same query runs again, but if the query-faults it takes a 
very long time for the repetition.

My question is if there is any possibility to force a time out for the 
curlPerform function or something like that?

Thanks!

             run = 1
             i=0
             while(run==1)
                 {
                     i=i+1
                     try    (
                                              run <- curlPerform(url = 
"http://search.webofknowledge.com/esti/wokmws/ws/WokSearchLite.cgi",
httpheader=c("Accept-Encoding"="gzip,deflate","Content-Type"="text/xml;charset=UTF-8",'SOAPAction'='""',
"Cookie"=paste('SID="',s_session,'"',sep=""),"Content-Length"=paste(nchar(s_body)),"Host"="search.webofknowledge.com","Connection"="Keep-Alive","User-Agent"="Apache-HttpClient/4.1.1 
(java 1.5)"),
postfields=s_body,
writefunction = h$update
                                                             ,verbose = 
TRUE)
                          ,TRUE)

                     print(i)
                  }

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