On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Paul Johnson wrote:

> I've recently taken my first steps into http programming and after a shaky
> start I downloaded libcurl instead and am now spending my time writing my
> application instead of the transport layer. Top job to everyone involved in
> authoring this project - helped me out of a big hole, thanks :)

*bows*

> Anyways, one thing I've now not got is auto-dial. My original code (win32)
> used gethostbyname() which kicked off the dialup connection if it wasn't
> present. Is there a way to make libcurl do the same without having to
> actually go back to using my own bit of sockets init to make gethostname
> work ?
>
> Out of interest, if libcurl isn't using gethostbyname or similar functions,
> how does it actually hook up to a server from a textual URL ? (I've not
> looked at the source much yet, maybe I should :)

libcurl _is_ actually using gethostbyname() (lib/hostip.c) so if that is what
makes it work, libcurl should work...

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl: been grokking URLs since 1998
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