I see that when I download big files (say, > 400 MiB) from FTP server, CURL emits a "curl: (28) FTP response timeout" message. For example, $ curl -R -O ftp://ftp.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/14.04/ubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64.iso % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 964M 100 964M 0 0 943k 0 0:17:26 0:17:26 --:--:-- 0 curl: (28) FTP response timeout (when it reaches 100% of download, it hangs for a few seconds then it emits the above message) I flag this because it seems Cygwin specific. On OSX [1], for example, CURL terminates without any message, as expected [2]. Ciao, Angelo. --- [*] But also with a mingw-w64 build of CURL. [2] I did all these tests with the same internet connection and the same command lines. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple