curl-users
Re: DNS via SOCKS?
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:02:19 +0100 (CET)
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:02:19 +0100 (CET)
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Mike Perry wrote:
> Is there any way to get curl to not attempt local DNS lookups and instead
> deliver the hostname to the socks server a-la SOCKS4A/SOCKS5? I've tried
> --socks, --socks4, and --socks5 and all seem to try to do DNS locally.
The socks options of curl only use SOCKS for the actual data transfer
connection. Feel free to add this DNS-over-SOCKS ability and mail us the
patch!
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