- Michael Wallner provided a patch that adds support for CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS

and CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS that, as their names should hint, do the
  timeouts with millisecond resolution instead. The only restriction to that
  is the alarm() (sometimes) used to abort name resolves as that uses full
  seconds. I fixed the FTP response timeout part of the patch.

  Internally we now count and keep the timeouts in milliseconds but it also
  means we multiply set timeouts with 1000. The effect of this is that no
  timeout can be set to more than 2^31 milliseconds (on 32 bit systems), which
  equals 24.86 days.  We probably couldn't before either since the code did
  *1000 on the timeout values on several places already.

RELEASE-NOTES

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Curl and libcurl 7.16.2
 
 This release includes the following changes:
  
- o
+ o Added CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS and CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS
 
 This release includes the following bugfixes:
 
@@ -33,6 +33,6 @@ New curl mirrors:
 This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
 advice from friends like these:
 
- Yang Tse, Manfred Schwarb
+ Yang Tse, Manfred Schwarb, Michael Wallner
 
         Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)