Curl request never finish / return, timeout does not work

With the following example, curl never returns anything, and never times out.

Using curl(1) from the command line with -L -v shows a 301 redirect to a slow https site, but data is returned with HTTP 200 after about 10 seconds.

With node-libcurl, no ‘end’ or ‘error’ event is ever fired, and the request never times out even though TIMEOUT is set to three seconds.

Any ideas?

var Curl = require('node-libcurl').Curl;

function curlUrl(url, callback) {
	var curl = new Curl();
	curl.setOpt('URL', url);
	curl.setOpt('FOLLOWLOCATION', true);
	curl.setOpt('TIMEOUT', 3);
	curl.on('end', function(statusCode, body, headers) {
	    this.close();
	    callback(body, statusCode);
	});
	curl.on('error', function (err, code) {
		curl.close.bind(curl);
		callback(null, code);
	});
	curl.perform();
}

curlUrl('http://arrow.no', function(results, errorCode) {
	console.log(results, errorCode);
});

Node version: v6.9.4 node-libcurl@1.1.0

[tomrf]

I upgrade curl/libcurl to v7.53.1 and TIMEOUT now works as expected. Sadly curl 7.29 comes with the latest release of CentOS (maybe RedHat and Fedora too?). Maybe add a warning on install or use about older versions of libcurl? I dunno.

Thanks a bunch for helping me debug this!

[JCMais]

Also note ‘0 out of -1 bytes received’ – is the operation expecting -1 bytes? Seems weird.

This does look weird, but your libcurl version is more than 4 years old, can you install a newer one to check if the issue is fixed?