----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Stenberg" <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se>
To: "libcurl Mailing list" <curl-library_at_lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 2:40 AM
Subject: Re: Connected state

> On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Mohit Kumar wrote:
>
> > Is there anyway the curl library can get us info on the connected state
of
> > the local system? like the system is using lan or modem connection, or
via
> > proxy etc?
>
> Nope. That information is not easily detectable on most operating systems,
and
> libcurl doesn't really care what kind of connection you're using (if any).
>
> For detecting proxies, there's the separate project 'libproxydetect':
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/libproxydetect/
This library looks interesting, though not very useful. It claims to be OS
independent, though it isn't even close to that. In fact, it only works on
Windows. Not only does it require Windows, it requires IE. Then there is the
fact that it hasn't been developed in almost a year, and the fact that there
are open bugs that haven't been fixed.

I personally wouldn't recommend someone use this library. It seems like it
will cause more problems. It's a very nice idea, but this lib is far from
complete.

Dominick Meglio

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Received on 2004-01-27