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Re: Curl support fragmentation for tcp?

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 22:57:26 +0200 (CEST)

On Sat, 24 Aug 2013, Michael Chan wrote:

> Does curl support fragmentation for tcp packet? Say i want to use http to
> post a file to a web server and each packet is fragmented into pieces.

The protocols curl support all run on top of TCP or UDP so it relies on the
underlying TCP/IP stack to implement and support those protocols properly. If
your host's stack supports IP fragmentation, it will work just fine (and a
stack really need to support that to work properly). I assume you're actually
talking about IP fragmentation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_fragmentation

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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Received on 2013-08-24