On 05/20/2015 05:00 AM, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> Hi ToddAndMargo!
>
>   On 2015.05.19 at 21:04:10 -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote next:
>
>> I am trying to do this with wget:
>>
>> wget --connect-timeout=20 --read-timeout=1  --quiet  \
>> http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/utility/ -O -
>>
>> Problem: the site takes FOREVER to complete its download.  Dribble,
>> dribble, dribble.  Occasionally is just stops.  And wget hangs.
>>
>> I fired this web page up in Firefox ten minutes ago and it is still
>> loading!
>>
>> Is there a way to get wget to just time out after a while?
>>
>
> curl has -m option for that
>

Hi Vladimir,

   -m/--max-time <seconds>
               Maximum  time  in  seconds that you allow the whole
               operation to take.  This is useful for preventing
               your batch jobs from hanging for hours due to slow
               networks or links going down.  See also the
               --connect-timeout option.

               If this option is used several times, the last one
               will be used.

Dang.  Missed that.  I thought I had read the man page line by
line too.

Thank you!

-T