diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 1076b015a5..8b794c04dd 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -7,6 +7,18 @@
                                   Changelog
 
 Daniel Stenberg (7 May 2010)
+- Dirk Manske reported a regression. When connecting with the multi interface,
+  there were situations where libcurl wouldn't store connect time correctly as
+  it used to (and is documented to) do.
+
+  Using his fine sample program we could repeat it, and I wrote up test case
+  573 using that code. The problem does not easily show itself using the local
+  test suite though.
+
+  The fix, also as suggested by Dirk, is a bit on the ugly side as it adds yet
+  another call to Curl_verboseconnect() and setting the TIMER_CONNECT time.
+  That situation is subject for some closer inspection in the future.
+
 - Howard Chu split the I/O handling functions into private handlers.
     
   Howard Chu brought the bulk work of this patch that properly moves out the
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 01dcd2ee67..b0b94986c9 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ This release includes the following bugfixes:
  o MSVC makefiles now use ws2_32.lib instead of wsock32.lib
  o -O crash on windows
  o SSL handshake timeout underflow in libcurl-NSS
+ o multi interface missed storing connection time
 
 This release includes the following known bugs:
 
@@ -33,6 +34,6 @@ This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
 advice from friends like these:
 
  Rainer Canavan, Paul Howarth, Jerome Vouillon, Ruslan Gazizov, Yang Tse,
- Kamil Dudka, Alex Bligh, Ben Greear, Hoi-Ho Chan, Howard Chu
+ Kamil Dudka, Alex Bligh, Ben Greear, Hoi-Ho Chan, Howard Chu, Dirk Manske
 
         Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)
diff --git a/lib/connect.c b/lib/connect.c
index eb6df71d45..4adc7f35a2 100644
--- a/lib/connect.c
+++ b/lib/connect.c
@@ -575,6 +575,8 @@ CURLcode Curl_is_connected(struct connectdata *conn,
       /* we are connected, awesome! */
       conn->bits.tcpconnect = TRUE;
       *connected = TRUE;
+      Curl_pgrsTime(data, TIMER_CONNECT); /* connect done */
+      Curl_verboseconnect(conn);
       return CURLE_OK;
     }
     /* nope, not connected for real */
diff --git a/lib/url.c b/lib/url.c
index 9c9e09fbc8..c41db0a7cd 100644
--- a/lib/url.c
+++ b/lib/url.c
@@ -150,10 +150,6 @@ static long ConnectionKillOne(struct SessionHandle *data);
 static void conn_free(struct connectdata *conn);
 static void signalPipeClose(struct curl_llist *pipeline, bool pipe_broke);
 
-#ifdef CURL_DISABLE_VERBOSE_STRINGS
-#define verboseconnect(x)  do { } while (0)
-#endif
-
 /*
  * Protocol table.
  */
@@ -3178,7 +3174,7 @@ static CURLcode ConnectPlease(struct SessionHandle *data,
  * verboseconnect() displays verbose information after a connect
  */
 #ifndef CURL_DISABLE_VERBOSE_STRINGS
-static void verboseconnect(struct connectdata *conn)
+void Curl_verboseconnect(struct connectdata *conn)
 {
   if(conn->data->set.verbose)
     infof(conn->data, "Connected to %s (%s) port %ld (#%ld)\n",
@@ -3274,8 +3270,7 @@ CURLcode Curl_protocol_connect(struct connectdata *conn,
   if(!conn->bits.tcpconnect) {
 
     Curl_pgrsTime(data, TIMER_CONNECT); /* connect done */
-
-    verboseconnect(conn);
+    Curl_verboseconnect(conn);
   }
 
   if(!conn->bits.protoconnstart) {
@@ -4997,7 +4992,7 @@ static CURLcode setup_conn(struct connectdata *conn,
       Curl_pgrsTime(data, TIMER_APPCONNECT); /* we're connected already */
       conn->bits.tcpconnect = TRUE;
       *protocol_done = TRUE;
-      verboseconnect(conn);
+      Curl_verboseconnect(conn);
     }
     /* Stop the loop now */
     break;
diff --git a/lib/url.h b/lib/url.h
index cb3dd2f60a..63d7f2c482 100644
--- a/lib/url.h
+++ b/lib/url.h
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
  *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
  *
- * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2009, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+ * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2010, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
  *
  * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
  * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -86,4 +86,11 @@ void Curl_reset_reqproto(struct connectdata *conn);
 
 CURLcode Curl_connected_proxy(struct connectdata *conn);
 
+#ifdef CURL_DISABLE_VERBOSE_STRINGS
+#define Curl_verboseconnect(x)  do { } while (0)
+#else
+void Curl_verboseconnect(struct connectdata *conn);
+#endif
+
+
 #endif
diff --git a/tests/data/Makefile.am b/tests/data/Makefile.am
index b28c5adc20..dabe3d1950 100644
--- a/tests/data/Makefile.am
+++ b/tests/data/Makefile.am
@@ -65,7 +65,8 @@ EXTRA_DIST = test1 test108 test117 test127 test20 test27 test34 test46	   \
  test564 test1101 test1102 test1103 test1104 test299 test310 test311       \
  test312 test1105 test565 test800 test1106 test801 test566 test802 test803 \
  test1107 test1108 test1109 test1110 test1111 test1112 test129 test567     \
- test568 test569 test570 test571 test572 test804 test805 test806 test807
+ test568 test569 test570 test571 test572 test804 test805 test806 test807 \
+ test573
 
 filecheck:
 	@mkdir test-place; \
diff --git a/tests/data/test573 b/tests/data/test573
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..909ae3cf70
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/data/test573
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+<testcase>
+<info>
+<keywords>
+FILE
+</keywords>
+</info>
+#
+# Server-side
+<reply>
+<data>
+HTTP/1.1 200 OK
+Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2010 14:49:00 GMT
+Server: test-server/fake
+Last-Modified: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 12:10:00 GMT
+ETag: "21025-dc7-39462498"
+Accept-Ranges: bytes
+Content-Length: 6
+Connection: close
+Content-Type: text/html
+Funny-head: yesyes
+
+-foo-
+</data>
+</reply>
+
+# Client-side
+<client>
+<server>
+http
+</server>
+# tool is what to use instead of 'curl'
+<tool>
+lib573
+</tool>
+
+ <name>
+verify connect time with multi interface
+ </name>
+ <command>
+http://%HOSTIP:%HTTPPORT/573
+</command>
+</client>
+
+# Verify data after the test has been "shot"
+<verify>
+<strip>
+^User-Agent:.*
+</strip>
+<protocol>
+GET /573 HTTP/1.1
+Host: %HOSTIP:%HTTPPORT
+Accept: */*
+
+</protocol>
+</verify>
+</testcase>
diff --git a/tests/libtest/Makefile.inc b/tests/libtest/Makefile.inc
index 4dc8615a75..58d5d92266 100644
--- a/tests/libtest/Makefile.inc
+++ b/tests/libtest/Makefile.inc
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ noinst_PROGRAMS = lib500 lib501 lib502 lib503 lib504 lib505 lib506	\
   lib529 lib530 lib532 lib533 lib536 lib537 lib540 lib541 lib542 lib543 \
   lib544 lib545 lib547 lib548 lib549 lib552 lib553 lib554 lib555 lib556 \
   lib539 lib557 lib558 lib559 lib560 lib562 lib564 lib565 lib566 lib567 \
-  lib568 lib569 lib570 lib571 lib572
+  lib568 lib569 lib570 lib571 lib572 lib573
 
 lib500_SOURCES = lib500.c $(SUPPORTFILES)
 
@@ -145,3 +145,4 @@ lib571_SOURCES = lib571.c $(SUPPORTFILES)
 
 lib572_SOURCES = lib572.c $(SUPPORTFILES)
 
+lib573_SOURCES = lib573.c $(SUPPORTFILES) $(TESTUTIL)
diff --git a/tests/libtest/lib573.c b/tests/libtest/lib573.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e08b6df46b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/libtest/lib573.c
@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+/*****************************************************************************
+ *                                  _   _ ____  _
+ *  Project                     ___| | | |  _ \| |
+ *                             / __| | | | |_) | |
+ *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
+ *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
+ *
+ */
+
+#include "test.h"
+
+#include "testutil.h"
+#include "memdebug.h"
+
+#define MAIN_LOOP_HANG_TIMEOUT     90 * 1000
+#define MULTI_PERFORM_HANG_TIMEOUT 60 * 1000
+
+/*
+ * Get a single URL without select().
+ */
+
+int test(char *URL)
+{
+  CURL *c;
+  CURLM *m = NULL;
+  int res = 0;
+  int running=1;
+  long connect_time = 0;
+  struct timeval mp_start;
+  char mp_timedout = FALSE;
+
+  if (curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_ALL) != CURLE_OK) {
+    fprintf(stderr, "curl_global_init() failed\n");
+    return TEST_ERR_MAJOR_BAD;
+  }
+
+  if ((c = curl_easy_init()) == NULL) {
+    fprintf(stderr, "curl_easy_init() failed\n");
+    curl_global_cleanup();
+    return TEST_ERR_MAJOR_BAD;
+  }
+
+  test_setopt(c, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1L);
+  test_setopt(c, CURLOPT_URL, URL);
+
+  if ((m = curl_multi_init()) == NULL) {
+    fprintf(stderr, "curl_multi_init() failed\n");
+    curl_easy_cleanup(c);
+    curl_global_cleanup();
+    return TEST_ERR_MAJOR_BAD;
+  }
+
+  if ((res = (int)curl_multi_add_handle(m, c)) != CURLM_OK) {
+    fprintf(stderr, "curl_multi_add_handle() failed, "
+            "with code %d\n", res);
+    curl_multi_cleanup(m);
+    curl_easy_cleanup(c);
+    curl_global_cleanup();
+    return TEST_ERR_MAJOR_BAD;
+  }
+
+  mp_timedout = FALSE;
+  mp_start = tutil_tvnow();
+
+  while (running) {
+    res = (int)curl_multi_perform(m, &running);
+    if (tutil_tvdiff(tutil_tvnow(), mp_start) >
+        MULTI_PERFORM_HANG_TIMEOUT) {
+      mp_timedout = TRUE;
+      break;
+    }
+    if (running <= 0) {
+      fprintf(stderr, "nothing left running.\n");
+      break;
+    }
+  }
+
+  if (mp_timedout) {
+    if (mp_timedout) fprintf(stderr, "mp_timedout\n");
+    fprintf(stderr, "ABORTING TEST, since it seems "
+            "that it would have run forever.\n");
+    res = TEST_ERR_RUNS_FOREVER;
+  }
+
+  curl_easy_getinfo(c, CURLINFO_CONNECT_TIME, &connect_time);
+  if (connect_time==0) {
+    fprintf(stderr, "connect time is 0\n");
+    res = TEST_ERR_MAJOR_BAD;
+  }
+
+test_cleanup:
+
+  if(m) {
+    curl_multi_remove_handle(m, c);
+    curl_multi_cleanup(m);
+  }
+  curl_easy_cleanup(c);
+  curl_global_cleanup();
+
+  return res;
+}
+