On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 08:36:00AM +0000, Harry Strongburg wrote:
> I am wondering if there's a way to have multiple --interface options.
> The cURL docs say "If this option is used several times, the last one
> will be used"; I am wondering if there is a chance this could be
> changed.
>
> Reasoning: better dual-stack support for interfaces. I think cURL should
> read both --interface options, and use whichever one works. For example:
> > curl --interface 2001:etc:etc:: --interface 1.2.3.4 http://ip6.me/
> cURL should get the DNS result of the site ip6.me - it will see it has
> an AAAA record, so it should use the IPv6 --interface supplied. Using
> http://ip4.me/ will work as well - it will see there is only an A
> record, so it will only try the IPv4 --interface.
>
> If this suggestion even gets accepted, possibably cURL could have an
> --iface4 and --iface6 if you want to keep the classic approach to
> --interface (maybe?). It would be a lot better for cURL to accept
> numerous --interfaces, but --iface4/6 would also be just as swell.

Assuming the interface to be used is the same in both cases, can you not
just supply the interface name to get this behaviour?

>>> Dan
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Received on 2010-11-24