Curl was indeed ipv6 enabled:

curl 7.9.6 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl 7.9.6 (OpenSSL 0.9.6b) (ipv6 enabled)

I don't care for ipv6 support at this time, so I recompiled again
with --disable-ipv6 option and it works fine now. Thanks for the hint on
what was wrong, as this "bug" really made my hair grey.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Stenberg" <daniel_at_haxx.se>
To: "thor" <thor_at_gmx.co.uk>
Cc: "Curl Mailinglist" <curl-users_at_lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: --interface option doesn't work?

<snip>
> In this case, I guess that you run an IPv6 enabled curl. It turns out that
we
> only support --interface for non-IPv6 enabled versions for some odd reason
I
> can't explain... I think it has something to do with that some of the
> functions we use don't work for IPv6 addresses, but that should then be a
> run-time choice, not a build-time one as it is now.
<snip>
Received on 2002-04-21