On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Greg Davis wrote:

> It seems that Curl uses local ports randomly.

So it does.

> I see a patch was written to allow a Red Hat user to specify the outbound
> port with --interface command but sadly I am writing this for windows.

I don't see such a patch, as I thought we were still discussing how that could
be improved due to the problems it had. But the author seems to have vanished.

> Is there any way in windows to specify which port curl uses so I can get
> through my firewall. Thanks for any help.

I figure you could use if not the exact same patch, a similar one.

I'm interested in getting this feature supported by (lib)curl. I just have
"some" other work in the pipe already: http://daniel.haxx.se/now.html

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