On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Richard Atterer wrote:

> 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||53084|)
>
> response. In the case of the 229 response, libcurl will *re-resolve* the
> hostname before making the second connection, which is not a good idea,

Argh. That's indeed a horrible idea!

> I was about to fix this and send a patch, but then started wondering: Is
> there a good reason to re-resolve the hostname? The newhostp variable is
> only there for 229-style responses, and the Curl_resolv() at ftp.c:1601 is
> only given a hostname (and not an IP address) in the case of a 229 response.

...

> so IMHO libcurl's behaviour is buggy.

Correct. It should certainly *not* resolve the host name again. I would very
much appreciate that patch!

Great analysis and work tracking this down!

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