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Re: ECHO responses

From: Hans H. Anderson <me_at_hansanderson.com>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 10:54:08 -0500 (CDT)

Daniel,

Thanks for the response. I appreciate your help and your program.

Hans

On Tue, 6 May 2003, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> On Tue, 6 May 2003, Hans H. Anderson wrote:
>
> > The problem could be in many places, but since I noticed that authorize.net
> > doesn't seem to allow pings or traceroutes, I thought maybe something in
> > the Curl system was using ECHO packets to test for server whereabouts in
> > some cases. If not, then I'll look elsewhere.
>
> I can confirm Ralph's statement. curl does not use ECHO or any other ICMP
> mechanism. Only plain and simple TCP.
>
>

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Received on 2003-05-06