[Info-vax] cURL (7.19.7) for VMS

[JF Mezei]

At about the same time you guys brought up this curl topic, my curl
stopped working !!!!! Damned you !

I can do

$ curl "--version"
curl 7.18.2 (ALPHA-HP-VMS) libcurl/7.18.2 OpenSSL/0.9.7e
Protocols: tftp ftp telnet dict http file https ftps
Features: NTLM SSL
$

and I can do:

> $ curl "-I" "http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/radar/index_e.html?id=XFT"
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:49:58 GMT
> Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) PHP/5.2.0-8+etch15 mod_perl/2.0.2 Perl/v5.8.8
> X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.0-8+etch15
> Set-Cookie: product=%22precip_snow%22
> Set-Cookie: duration=%22short%22
> Set-Cookie: overlays=%5B%22overlay_default_cities%22%2C%22overlay_roads%22%2C%22
> overlay_radar_circle%22%5D
> Connection: close
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
> 
> $


BUT !!!!


$ curl  "http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/radar/index_e.html?id=XFT"

hangs in LEF mode forever. No activity. No error message.  This worked
for a long time and stopped working yesterday (this is a job that runs
in detached mode 7/24, and is reproducible in interactive mode.


(This is on Alpha 8.3 with TCPIP Services 5.6)


Any ideas what would cause this ?