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From: Bill Shaver <bshaver_at_dev3.ctc.edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 15:31:09 -0700

Forgive me if this is a dumb question, but I have exhausted my resources
searching for an answer.

I have just installed curl (7.9.8) with php (4.2.1) and apache (1.3.26)
on an HP-UX 10.20 development server. After some fighting and reseach
around gethostbyname_r I was able to get it to acknowledge that the call
used 3 parameters. (I verified this with:
   /opt/curl/src/curl-7.9.8/lib/config.h:#define HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME_R_3 1
   /opt/curl/src/curl-7.9.8/lib/config.h:#define HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME_R 1
No tests (with 'make test') failed with name resolution errors (1 ftp
test failed).

But when I attempt to use curl (either via the library routines or directly
from the curl program) I get a "Couldn't resolve host" error. For example:

   $ /opt/curl/bin/curl -d "request=cksidpin&sid=865070247&pin=112472&returnurl=default" "192.168.1.1/cgi-bin/rqint>
   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
   <spEntry>
   <spMessage>09 ID and PIN are valid </spMessage>
   </spEntry>

   $ /opt/curl/bin/curl -d "request=cksidpin&sid=865070247&pin=112472&returnurl=default" "host.site.edu/cgi-bin/rqin>
   curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'host.site.edu'

Being new to curl and being rusty on my programming, can you suggest any
tricks for debugging this? Is this a known issue? Any help would be welcome.

Thank you and best wishes,
        --Bill

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Received on 2002-08-15